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Terrorist groups continue to extend their hold on Sahel, a region the size of Europe which lies south of the Sahara. Jihadist incursions happen daily, including terrorist attacks, murders, and…
Forget about nuclear missiles. The decisive weapon of the twenty-first century is the car bomb. After Iraq we now know that you can defeat a superpower, start a civil war…
Forget about nuclear missiles. The decisive weapon of the twenty-first century is the car bomb. After Iraq we now know that you can defeat a superpower, start a civil war…
He survived falling off a mountain peak, a helicopter crash and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan. Now, he’s facing his toughest challenge. Former army officer, war reporter and extreme adventurer,…
In December 2014 ISIS militants managed to completely surround the town of Sinjar in Iraq. The Yezedi Kurdish residents of the mountain town, which lies about 50km from the Syrian…
The Accabadora or ’Lady of Kind Death’ was a woman in Sardinian culture who performed an ancient form of euthanasia, an act of mercy for the terminally ill in order…
Lea Garofalo, 35, went to the police with details of the numerous crimes of her Mafioso husband, Carlo Cosco. In revenge, Cosco kidnapped and murdered her before dissolving her body…
The brutal murder of John Scott, Head of Fiji’s Red Cross, and his gay partner is still clouded in rumour and political mystery. In a country that has become increasingly…
This is the story of how the mobile phone entered our lives and changed everything. In just a few decades, we left behind a stationary, slow world where people had…
Just before the abolition of death sentence in France a terrible and bloody crime is committed. A young girl is found at Gare du l’Est’s left-luggage office, raped and murdered,…
Angelina Herlander was deeply attracted to a much younger man she met at a gig and decided to write to him after he carried out a frenzied attack knifing 2…
Today, Adolf Hitler’s autobiography cum Nazi manifesto is still sold all over the world, under the counter, on the internet or simply at the bookshop. This 700 page book, published…
His job was to protect NATO’s secrets but he ended up selling them to the Kremlin. This is the astonishing account of how Herman Simm, a former soviet militia officer,…
Why would someone fall in love with a convicted killer whose only hope of leaving prison is in a coffin? Notorious murderers like ‘Night Stalker’ Richard Ramirez still receive bags…
One of the biggest wrecks ever discovered in Spain was the ‘Triunfante’, sunk during a French siege in 1795. What’s the process of retrieving a sunken ship and preparing it…
On the 1st August 1936, 100,000 spectators watched as Hitler and the Olympic delegates arrived at the Olympic opening ceremony in Berlin. The Olympic flags hung cheerfully side-by-side banners bearing…
This is the unknown story of a century of Arab feminism. Filmed in Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia and featuring previously unreleased archives and exclusive interviews with activists, it approaches…
Who was the first man to cross the Pacific and circumnavigate the globe, and how did he overthrow a violent mutiny? 2022 marks the 500 year anniversary of Magellan and…
Today there are more than 766 US bases scattered around the globe, spanning across more than 100 countries and hosting more than 250.000 soldiers, in addition to the one million-plus…
Invented by Fulgence Bienvenüe, the Parisian Metro tested many construction methods: wooden tunnels, boring machines, shields, ground freezing systems, steel viaducts and submerged chambers in the Seine. More than a…
‘America’s Longest War’ provides a brief history of drug prohibition, beginning with Nixon’s declaration of war in 1971 and ending with Obama’s broken promise to allow states to determine their…
Athens is the birthplace of democracy filled with historic relics and structures that have survived from the golden age in the 5th century BC. Places like the acropolis and the…
Pondicherry located in Tamil Nadu is an exception in Indian territory. In the former French colony, the city’s culture has been shaped by many influences. Dupleix, governor-general of the French…
Traditionally associated with celebrities or high-paid executives, cocaine used to be too expensive for most people. But in the past 30 years, the price has fallen by an estimated 80…
New documents prove that since 1957, companies such as Exxon and Shell have known that burning fossil fuels changes the climate – their own, strictly secret research had revealed this.…
We investigate three cases of deaths of Scientology members. We find incomplete police investigations, suspicious circumstances and family members who are convinced there is more to the deaths of their…