Juan Camilo Hernández was born in Caldono, in south-west Colombia, in 1977. When he was sixteen he took part in a ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and soon to be chancellor of Germany, announced ...

During​ his martyrdom in 258 AD, St Lawrence, as he was being grilled alive by the Roman authorities, is said to ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

As the two coffins were driven through the crowd, a deep, sorrowful voice came from the loudspeakers. The sound of ...

In the summer​ of 1860, an unprecedented wave of sectarian violence swept across Greater Syria. Druze militias sacked Maronite Christian villages, killing eleven thousand people. Muslim mobs killed ...

Édouard Louis, one of France’s most acclaimed young writers, shot to international fame with his first novel, the semi-autobiographical 'End of Eddy'. His third novel, 'Who Killed My Father', revisits ...