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Al Capone, the greatest mobster in American history, led the Chicago Outfit at the height of Prohibition and was branded "Public Enemy Number One of the...

At 9:02 on the morning of April 19, 1995, the shockwave of the Oklahoma City bombing tore through the heart of the United States. A rented Ryder truck, parked...

In 1943, German pilot Franz Stigler spared a crippled American bomber. Forty-seven years later, Charlie Brown found him. They remained friends until death.

Discover the Pulitzer-winning photo capturing chilling indifference: tourists relax as a drowned migrant lies nearby. A haunting story of tragedy and humanity.

On the morning of 8 April 1940, during the Second World War, the British warship HMS Glowworm, under Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope, was on its...

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In the heart of Europe, at the very end of the twentieth century, a conflict of almost inconceivable brutality broke out, leaving an indelible scar on the...

In the early hours of 13 August 1961, Berliners awoke in a transformed city. Where there had been streets, there was now barbed wire. Where there had been...

On the morning of 16 March 1978, Italy awoke to a nightmare that would last 55 days and mark the soul of the nation for ever. Aldo Moro, the architect of the...

On 5 September 1972, Black September seized the Israeli team in the Olympic Village. Eleven athletes died and 900 million people watched live.

On 11 June 1963, the monk Thích Quảng Đức set himself alight in Saigon in protest at the persecution of Buddhists by the Diệm regime.

In June 1979, John Paul II kissed the soil of Poland. Nine days later, fear was broken and the road to Solidarity was open.

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Hitler. How Churchill and the RAF pilots won the Battle of Britain.

At dawn on 1 September 1939, the world held its breath. Poland, a nation reborn from the ashes of the First World War, became the epicentre of a storm that...

Aracy de Carvalho defied Brazil’s antisemitic secret circular and saved hundreds of Jews from persecution by the Third Reich.

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In the heart of France, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane remains an open wound in the landscape and in Europe's collective memory. On 10 June 1944, only four...

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was the first great clash of twentieth-century ideologies and the testing ground for the Second World War.

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To grasp the magnitude of the Srebrenica Massacre it is essential to go back to the turbulent state of the Balkan peninsula in the early 1990s. The former...

Discover the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese officer who kept fighting for 29 years after World War II officially ended, loyal to his mission.

Raphael Lemkin was the architect of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted on 9 December 1948. In 1951 the...

In January 2014, 15-year-old Aitzaz Hasan faced a suicide bomber alone at the entrance of his school in Pakistan.

The zikr is danced in a circle until trance sets in. In Chechnya the Kremlin once saw the ritual as a sign of rebellion.

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In 1958 Che Guevara founded a clandestine radio station in the Sierra Maestra that proved decisive to the Cuban Revolution.

The 1941 photograph shows a man at the edge of a mass grave, seconds before being shot by Einsatzgruppe D.

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