As we move our clocks forward an hour into British Summer Time, Alastair Bonnett considers the uses and abuses of one of the 19th century’s most beneficial inventions ...

Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year.

Whether you're wanting a week filled with history and grand architecture, or want to eat your weight in local cheese and ...

The artwork and papier-mache sculptures are painstakingly crafted and then burned in Las Fallas, the most important yearly ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... s National Health Service (NHS) in Europe created a much more structured system ...

All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or ...

Curator Annie le Brun said she had been 'amazed' by de Sade's intelligence and called his exploration of 'desire and the violence of desire' a landmark in European literature. The current Marquis ...

Walking sticks have come a long way from their humble origins as mere support tools to becoming significant style statements.

Its streets follow old Spanish trails and 19th-century wagon trails to form what residents refer to as a wheel-and-spoke pattern. The inner loop is formed by I-410, inside which the historic ...

In the early parts of the 19th century, midwifery was the most ... played a pivotal role throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. The same was true on American soil until the 20th century. In colonial ...

While the Bavarian facade first catches your eye, the true stars of the show are the natural wonders surrounding Helen. Anna Ruby Falls stands as the crown jewel—a rare twin waterfall where Curtis ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...