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France

Da Vinci Code village ‘fed up with treasure hunters’

According to legend, the former parish priest left a hidden fortune in the commune.

Living

Prague Orloj goes back in time

The medieval astronomical clock has stopped for six months.

Cambodia

Cambodia marks 39 years since fall of Khmer Rouge rule

Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot's rule of terror killed an estimated 1.7 million people - nearly a quarter of the population - through execution, torture, starvation and disease in labour camps.

USA

John Young, US astronaut and space shuttle commander, dies

He was the only astronaut to fly with three different NASA programs, in a career spanning 42 years.

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Living

Fashion and Versailles

From Rose Bertin to Sofia Coppola, this is Versailles’ dresses and dreams.

Japan

Ex-US Army deserter to North Korea dies

He called his desertion a mistake that led him to spend most of his life captive in the isolated Communist state.

United Kingdom

25 years ago: the world’s first text message

It was both simple and easy to read: “Merry Christmas” - not “Xmas”.

Greece

Ancient texts revealed

A scientific project is underway to uncover ancient texts hidden beneath more recent writings. The manuscripts, known as palimpsests, form part of the collection of St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt.

USA

Trump denies using "Pocahontas" as racial slur against democratic sena

President Donald Trump said there was a "Pocahontas" in the U.S. Congress during a ceremony to honour Native American World War Two veterans in an apparent derogatory reference to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Green News

24 Hours in Beirut

Strolling the Lebanese capital food scene and discovering its eye-catching design architecture.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

As communist relics collapse, the band continues to play

Musicans battle to conserve a century of tradition as the world that fostered it disappears around them.

Egypt

Virtual Reality tours go to the next level

Team which discovered hidden chamber in Egyptian pyramd developes new virtual reality tour

Russia

Russian 1917 revolution - internet style!

Historians bring the 1917 Russian revolution into the modern day using internet technoligy

Russia

Russia avoids ostentatious celebration on 100th anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution

Our chronology revisits the events in 1917 that shook the world

Travel News

Half a day in Bodrum

Egypt

Cosmic-ray imaging finds hidden structure in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass refutes the "breakthrough" findings, says it was known the pyramid had hollows inside it

Colombia

CIA told Hitler was alive after World War II

The documents have re-surfaced in the wake of the JFK release

Russia

Russians remember Stalin victims

Flowers are laid in commemoration of the millions who died or were imprisoned during Stalin's purges

Russia

Trainspotting in the Shumkovo railway cemetery

Watch: Rare abandoned trains from the early 20th century reached their terminus near the Russian village of Shumkovo

USA

JFK's top-secret assassination files released, minus hundreds Trump ordered to be kept back

The papers were posted online by the National Archives and Records Administration in compliance with a 1992 law