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There aren’t many contemporary works on global economics that pinpoint the Black Death as a major factor in the development of the modern world. Economist...

Adventure, arid deserts, and diplomacy rarely go hand in hand. But in December 2015, when British explorer Mark Evans set off on an 808-mile...

Out with friends celebrating his 18th birthday in December 2004, young Spanish tennis fan Juan Aparicio had the grievous misfortune to be involved in...

Driven by nostalgia for times that never were, victimised by foes that never existed, and waiting for an enlightened leader who never arrives: most...

In the last days of his presidency, José Mujica visited the Casmu Hospital in Montevideo to pay his respects to Uruguay’s foremost historian and...

Genevieve Nnaji is used to being in the public eye. Her career took off at the age of eight when she appeared in Ripples,...

Grit and glamour rarely go hand in hand, but in Afghanistan – known mostly for being poor, full of poppies, and home to the...

Few people make their first million before they turn twenty, and fewer still can say they have penned an international best-seller to boot. Stacey...

I am on a two-week European tour at a time that could make one either very pessimistic or constructively optimistic about Europe’s prospects. First the...

Americans love their heroes; the loners and outsiders who take on the meanest, most black-hearted baddies, and beat them single-handedly. Who knows if Steve Jobs...