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Rome celebrates its 2,769th birthday

Rome has reached the grand old age of 2,769. To celebrate the foundation of the Italian capital, a parade was held to portray key moments from its

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Cervantes honoured in Spanish parliament

Actors put on a performance inside the Spanish parliament as part of a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of writer Miguel de Cervantes’s death.

United Kingdom

Beacons lit across UK to mark Queen's 90th birthday

Crowds of well-wishers lined the streets of Windsor in the United Kingdom on Thursday to wish Queen Elizabeth II a happy 90th birthday. Many had been

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 at Windsor

Britons, members of the Commonwealth, and well-wishers worldwide are celebrating the 90th birthday of her Majesty the Queen. The nation’s

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Culture news

Shakespeare in Ten Acts: a portrait of the Bard's life and works

Shakespeare in Ten Acts is an exhibition about the performances that made the Bard into the icon that we know today. It looks at ten key

World News

The silent screams of Pripyat, 30 years on

It’s the silence that strikes one the most in Pripyat when you see the artifacts that once formed part of thousands of everyday human routines

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth still going strong at 90

It was business as usual for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who was out and about on the eve of her 90th birthday. She carried out two public engagements

United Kingdom

Britain marks Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, Royal Mail's 500th

Ahead of nationwide celebrations for her birthday, the queen shared the spotlight with another British institution: the Royal Mail.

Culture news

Oldest art fair Art Cologne marks 50th anniversary

The 50th anniversary edition of Art Cologne was a special one, bringing together more than 200 galleries from 24 countries. Considering each gallery

Korea

Two years since South Korean ferry tragedy

Thousands gather to pay tribute to the victims of the Sewol as the families accuse the government of a "lack of transparency"

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Poland: six years since Smolensk crash

Inquiry has been reopened into the disaster that killed President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 others

Kenya

Kenya marks Garissa University attacks anniversary

The campus reopened in January but only 150 of its 700 students have returned to class.

Business Series

Apple turns 40

Apple, the world's best known technology company, is celebrating its 40th birthday, during which time it has changing the way people communicate and access information and entertainment.

Gaza

Palestinians and Arab Israelis mark 40th anniversary of 'Land Day'

Thousands of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs held rallies on Wednesday to mark the 40th anniversary of “Land Day” – when protests against the Israeli

Ireland

Easter Uprising centenary parade draws massive crowds

Tens of thousands lined the streets of Dublin to mark the centenary of the Easter uprising of 1916. The parade on Sunday was one of many events to

World News

Ireland marks centenary of 1916 Easter Uprising

Ireland has been commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Easter Uprising. While the revolt against British rule failed – it was quashed within days

World News

Germanwings air tragedy remembered one year on

One year after Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew an Airbus into a mountainside in the Alps relatives of the passengers who died gathered.

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Germanwings tragedy: "Life has resumed, but traces of the catastrophe endure"

“In those first weeks, residents were stopped by the police when returning home and their vehicles searched… some told me that they had the

Business Series

Ten years of Twitter, but still no profit

It is exactly 10 years since Twitter came into being, during which time the social media website has had a big impact on internet culture but its financial road had been a rocky one.

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107-year-old woman dances with Harlem Globetrotters

A month after she saw one dream come true by visiting the White House and meeting Barack and Michelle Obama, Virginia McLaurin celebrated turning 107