Before the 1970s, the USA prevented its own journalists from visiting a state that they pretended did not exist, but most other Western countries recognised People’s China and had diplomats and journalists there, some of them fluent in Chinese. All of them saw a rapidly improving country: pe...
JAKOB FINCI, president of the Jewish community in BiH and a former ambassador of his country, is a Holocaust survivor. He was the first child born in the Italian camp of Rab in 1943. “At the beginning of World War II,” Finci said, “the Kingdom of Yugoslavia received many Jewish ref...
Forget old suggestions (by myself included) that the impact of a comet or asteroid was to blame, like the one that did for the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic. The greatest dying was less sudden than that. Similarly the impressive evidence for an eruption 250 million years ago – a...