Born to an Indian Sufi father and an American mother, Noor Inayat Khan was the SOE's first female wireless operator who was ...

It’s hard to pinpoint a single factor as responsible for the Nazis’ defeat, but all of them played a major role in the ...

Satellite imagery analysed by BBC Verify show water levels dropping at reservoirs serving Iran’s capital Tehran as it faces a water crisis. The city of around 10 million residents has had an unusually ...

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad ...

Saccharine Grin Judge Loren Cronin didn’t take kindly to poachers. Palmer and Storment were each hit with $10,000 cash bail.

The novelist talks about his new book, set a century in the future, and why writers should try to describe the wider world—not just themselves. The director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan ...

Demetrios Vardakis, 86, passed away just before sunrise on September 16th surrounded by his wife and daughter. The cause was metastatic ...