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When he was 13, Ralph Fiennes told his mother he wasn’t going to go to Mass any more. “My mother was a committed Catholic, very much so,” he says. In his early teens, the Fiennes family was living in ...

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Political punditry cognoscenti let out a collective gasp when, a month out from Election Day 2024, a top-tier polling outfit ...

Greenwood also saw some Gambians using bednets. He led a trial proving that bednets treated with insecticide reduced malaria. “A lot of it was common sense,” he says. But the findings initially had ...

Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Here’s what medieval people believed would keep them healthy.

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Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African kingdoms and empires developed their own diverse and rich cultures, art, histories and ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

has intensified since a wave of military coups toppled leaders in multiple West African countries in recent years. Many former French colonies have severed ties with Paris and looked increasingly ...