History worth staying up for — ancient civilizations, wars, inventions and the people whose decisions still shape the world you live in.
Palaeontologists are going to war over whether bones discovered in African desert are of an ape or a proto-human. As he awoke on his last day on earth, it is unlikely Toumai thought about much more than how he would survive following hour - let alone that, 7m years later, a bunch of ape-like creatures would be furiously discussing how much they resembled him. Monkey
Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra Laing. She entered world in 1955, a beautiful baby by all accounts, who could be expected to grow up in a close-knit family amid mines of gold and forests of pine. The black woman - with white parents.
Sixty years after deportation of Britons from Channel Islands, suffering is neither acknowledged nor compensated. In one of most shameful episodes in British history, more than 2,000 British subjects were deported from Channel Islands to Nazi-controlled France and Germany. Sixty years on they are still waiting for compensation, yet today all they hear is a deafening silence. Julia Pascal: Our hidden history.
He will go down in history as creator of world’s most famous rifle, AK-47. But now Mikhail Kalashnikov says he wishes he had paid more attention to his garden instead. Kalashnikov: ‘i Wish I’d Made a Lawnmower’.
The homeless men’s hostel that may have helped to turn a failed artist called Adolf Hitler into one of most notorious tyrants of all time, is about to close. Homeless hostel that nurtured Hitler set to shut.
