Surya Elango speaks to its British designer Leslie Scott about how a family game that started in her parent's home in 1970s Ghana, became an international hit. By 1986, the game was successfully ...

A D-Day veteran has received over 1,000 cards for his 100th birthday following an appeal by his next-door neighbour. Arnold, ...

In December 1995, India's parliament passed the country's first disability rights legislation. The landmark law aimed to give full participation and equality rights to an estimated 60 million people - ...

On 24 December 1951, in the United States, television history was made with the live broadcast of Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera ever composed specifically for TV.

Operation Flagship was a U.S Marshals sting operation, where some of Washington DC’s most wanted fugitives, were lured to a convention centre under the pretence of having won coveted NFL tickets in ...

On 12 December 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris climate agreement. It legally committed countries to climate action plans, designed to stop global temperatures rising 2C above ...

Sisi Khampepe served on the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she spoke to Rebecca Kesby in 2018 about how she had to put aside her own emotions and experiences at the ...

In December 1975, four members of one of the IRA’s deadliest units were chased by police through the streets of London before hiding out in a small flat owned by a middle-aged couple called John and ...

In 2011, Lagos Fashion Week debuted, putting Nigerian style on the map. Omoyemi Akerele founded the event which helped to launch the careers of designers internationally. It has grown into a major ...

A D-Day veteran who "never expected to come back" from war said he was "absolutely thrilled and honoured" to be granted the ...

A street has been named in memory of a World War Two veteran who took part in the D-Day landings. Donald "Don" Sheppard, from Basildon in Essex, landed on Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 as a Royal Engineer ...

A segment from the Berlin Wall, one of more than 170 pieces taken from the structure, has a new home in Herefordshire. The ...