On 5 December 2013 the world lost Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. The anti-apartheid leader died peacefully at his Johannesburg home, aged 95, after months of...
Aboard the storm-battered Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, two men changed history.
After two days of talks rocked by Force 10 gales in Marsaxlokk Bay,...
On this day in 1959, the Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington by 12 nations, establishing Antarctica as a demilitarised, peaceful continent dedicated to...
On this day in 1826, English chemist and pharmacist John Walker made an accidental discovery that would quietly change everyday life: the friction match....