Witness History

Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment

Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis

The world's first perfume archive

The Tabasco floods

The clean-up of Chernobyl

Canada's war in the woods

Europe’s long drought of 2011

Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam

Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'

The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia

The assassination of Thomas Sankara

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

The creation of My Little Pony

The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity

Khula Manch, the victory rally

Hitler's teeth

Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art

Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa

The first commercially successful electronic cigarette

Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica

New Nordic cuisine

The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck

Echo and the elephants

Anthony Bourdain's Don't Eat Before Reading This

The first Great Wall of China trek

How a Maasai community in Kenya overcame a deadly drought

The only Pope to visit New Zealand

The reunification of Germany

Women's rights in independent Tunisia

The 'Cyprus Emergency'

Oslo's anti-racism demonstration

The L'Amicale Four

The nuclear mango deal

Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies

How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation

I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth

My father directed Seven Samurai

Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film

The invention of the mobility scooter

India’s first nuclear test

Portugal’s worst train disaster

Elvis visits Scotland

Sweden’s diplomatic freeze with the USA

Syria's secret library

Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial

The Japanese invasion of Malaya

The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale

The storming of Spain's parliament

The playboy spy who inspired James Bond