Two hundred rare objects at the Metropolitan Museum trace the remarkable history and cultural heritage of kingdoms on the shores of the Sahara.

Artist who posed for Marc Quinn’s Trafalgar Square statue talks of son’s depression The artist Alison Lapper has said her late son was taunted by other children at school because of her disability.Parys Lapper, 19, was found in a hotel in Worthing, West Sussex, last month after he died from...