Witness History

Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war

Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war

Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria

West Africa fights back against Boko Haram

Ravi and George

India goes to the UN

The Howard Hughes literary hoax

Colombia's Salt Cathedral

Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film

How the Bosnian war ended

The Spanish king reclaims his throne

The death of Franco

Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015

Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit

When Maldives' ministers met underwater

Bataclan attack in Paris

Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials

Birth of the G7

Breaking the sound barrier

Discovering the largest dinosaur ever

The ‘father of e-books’

The creation of Miffy

President Clinton is impeached

The brains behind Thunderbirds

Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer

Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds

Srebrenica massacre

The invention of the balloon-expandable stent

Death of a priest

The man who invented the scratch card

GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity

The UK’s first black-owned music studio

Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia

My aunt created The Moomins

Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones

The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky

Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction

Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir

How BRICS got its name

Japan surrenders in Beijing

The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away

'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'

The home video war

The acquittal of OJ Simpson

'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'

The strike that shook up India's tea industry

The birth of the Excel spreadsheet

The Cradock Four killings