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Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister

Zoran Djindjic, the prime minister of Serbia, was assassinated on 12 March 2003. He was murdered by an associate of former president, Slobodan Milose…

3 years, 7 months ago

The museum at the end of the world

In 1992, the late zoologist Nigel Bonner opened one of the world's most remote museums, the South Georgia Whaling Museum, on South Georgia, a British…

3 years, 7 months ago

Grenada's underwater sculpture park

In 2004 Jason deCaires Taylor started building the world's first underwater gallery.

He wanted to attract divers away from fragile coral reefs, so he …

3 years, 7 months ago

Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

In 2009, Rudolf Brazda, one of the last known survivors of the Pink Triangles, returned to the former site of Buchenwald concentration camp where he’…

3 years, 7 months ago

Wounded Knee siege

Fifty years ago, indigenous American activists staged a historic protest against the US authorities.

A siege began which lasted for two months and res…

3 years, 7 months ago

When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'

How did an estimated 900 million people come to witness Her Majesty the Queen apparently parachuting from a helicopter with James Bond?

Frank Cottrell…

3 years, 7 months ago

Families interned in WW2 China

Despite facing malnutrition, starvation and disease, Christopher John Huckstep's father set up a school in the Japanese internment camp where his fam…

3 years, 7 months ago

The invention of Semtex

In 1958, Stanislav Brebera invented Semtex.

It was a malleable, odourless and stable plastic explosive which became the choice weapon for those seeki…

3 years, 7 months ago

Seggae riots in Mauritius

Mauritian musician Kaya, who pioneered a new genre called seggae, fusing reggae and sega, died in police custody on 21 February 1999.

His death sparke…

3 years, 7 months ago

Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany had to decide which city would be the new capital.

The contenders were the West German city of Bonn and the…

3 years, 7 months ago