Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

French actor Tchéky Karyo, who had a starring role in the film Nikita and the TV series The Missing, has died aged 72. Karyo, who was born in Turkey but grew up in Paris, died of a cancer on Friday, ...

The nightmares kick in from the moment the album opens with its title track. A Muse-like stomp, it finds Florence running ...

The sixth album by Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream, is the best new album I have heard all year. Magisterial, wild, funny, profound and sad; so awe-inspiring, indeed, that it made me ...

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, ...

Political systems start with decentralized vassal feudalism, steppe hordes, and administrative empires but end with ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

Nature walks are good for you, but can a city stroll be just as good? Walking in nature has been shown to boost physical and ...

Step into history in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a perfectly preserved medieval gem in Bavaria. Founded in 1142 and made a Free ...

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