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A Yazidi refugee has won the Nobel Peace prize. How she and Amal Clooney are fighting to put Islamic State in the dock. From the archive

Tantra is about so much more than sex, as Isabella Tree finds out in Kathmandu

What does it take to play Stephen Hawking? We follow Redmayne through a process that earned him an Oscar

Capital punishment is slowly dying out, one country at a time – largely thanks to two British lawyers

Research suggests that light looms as large in our well-being as sleep. Rosie Blau consults experts in California and Japan

It is now 65 years since George Orwell died, and he has never been bigger. How did this happen?

The most sought-after set designer in opera. And theatre. And rock, pop, hip-hop and the Olympics

Giles Whittell meets the quirky Russian physicist who may be the new James Watt

The pictures may be small, but YouTube’s stars are getting bigger – and even making money. Ryan Gilbey plunges into the world of do-it-yourself television