Mario Testino returns home to focus on the beauty of Peru

The man made famous for his portraits of supermodels discusses why he has been drawn back to his hometown Lima

China hopes to take rare animals off the menu with tough jail sentences

People who knowing eat products made from 420 species classified as endangered face of up to 10 years or more in prison

Joséphine’s letters to trusted Napoleon general to go on sale in Paris

Expert describes four unpublished letters to chief of staff Alexandre Berthier as ‘wonderful, intimate and revealing’

Budget cuts threaten Kew Gardens’ world-class status

Up to 125 jobs to go at botanic institution after ministers impose £1.5m cuts despite warning of critical impact on research

Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty show to come to London

Fashion designer’s retrospective, the eighth most visited exhibition in Metropolitan Museum’s 142-year history, to be at V&A in 2015

The common ground between coffee geeks and growers

With climate change decimating the harvest, caring about coffee is not just a hipster indulgence