In a courtroom in western Sicily, a young woman takes to the stand. A victim of sexual abuse, she has defied tradition and refused to marry her attacker. Now, she is fighting a law that has allowed generations of men to escape justice for their crimes. But will her determination be enough to change centuries…

Strolling along a beach with her friend, a woman does a good deed and picks up some rubbish strewn on the sand. In the process, she sees an attractive antique-looking bottle that she decides to keep. But she has no idea that this random find will soon see her listed in the Guinness Book of…

Russian astronaut Vladimir Komarov’s solo space flight was drawing to its close. It had been anything but an easy mission. After the launch from the Soviet Baikonur base on April 23, 1967, Komarov’s space ship had been plagued by serious technical problems. But then, after nearly 27 hours in space and 18 completed orbits of…

Long queues of people push and shove at each other. Occasionally, their desperation even leads to violence. It reads like the script for a disaster movie, with people fighting for access to food or water. But this is the 1980s and the objects of their desire are not essentials but toy dolls. Dolls with a…

Trapped in their cells, the captives must have heard the screams and wondered when it would be their turn. Day after day, month after month, individuals were selected and hauled outside, never to return. Their fellow prisoners could have little concept of quite what had befallen them, however. In 2015 archaeologists working in Zultépec-Tecoaque in…