History’s loudest recorded bang went off on August, 27 1883, Krakatoa. It was a day when a disaster became a planetary ...

A sudden rush of migrants into Ceuta has once again turned one of Europe’s most unusual borders into the frontline of a centuries-old dispute between Morocco and Spain. Ceuta sits on the North African ...

The Spanish civil war lasted from 1936 to 1939, and led to the repressive Francisco Franco dictatorship, which lasted until 1975. Today, 90 years after the war broke out, it remains a traumatic, ...