The Other Place will be directed by Daniel Brooks and run Jan. 18-Feb. 8, 2015, at Canadian Stage. The work, about a successful neurologist whose life begins to fall apart, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, ...

Queen Victoria is often remembered as the figurehead of a moral, industrious era in British history. Yet the global economic machinery that operated during her reign included one of the most ...

Commercial poppy production in Victoria is another step closer after successful field trials. Opium poppies are used to make painkillers. Tasmania currently produces almost 50 percent of the world's ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous. But for Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, it is “one of the most powerful beings that humans have encountered in their time on Earth”. Mr Ghosh’s elegant ...