History as told by the people who were there.
Fifty years after the start of the genocide that wiped out a quarter of its eight million population
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia. Up to two million peop
In 1993, a literal lightbulb moment led to the invention of the first white light emitting diode (LE
In April 2005, nine young Australians were caught trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesia
In December 1989, Germany’s ‘Green Belt’ was born. For more than 40 years, the country had been spli
On 19 April 1995, a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a government building in Oklahoma City, US.
In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, which was home to the German Parliament, was
In 1991, a horrific civil war erupted between rival warlords in Somalia. A US-led United Nations mis
In 1960, Norwegian toymaker Åsmund Lærdal began selling his latest invention - a life-size training
United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin at the height of the Cold War on 26 J
In 1976, Jenette Kahn took on one of the biggest roles in comic books - publisher of DC Comics, home
In 1951, American chemist Dr Harry Coover was experimenting with a substance called cyanoacrylate bu
In the early 1900s, the first diamond was found in Kolmanskop, in the African country of Namibia. It
For more than 50 years, Mulatu Astatke has been performing at venues around the world, inspiring aud
Harold Riley was the only artist in the world granted a sitting to capture Nelson Mandela on canvas.
As Yugoslavia began to break down, the Balkans conflict began - a series of brutal wars characterise
In 2015 Goodluck Jonathan became the first Nigerian president to concede election defeat. It allowed
When General David Galtier hovered above the French Alps in a helicopter on 24 March 2015 he could n
