Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

From chilling real-life ghost stories and terrifying dramas to Halloween party playlists, there's lots in store on BBC Sounds ...

This is the state that the racist ideology of Zionism has produced. The ‘west’ needs to wake up to what it has actually created.

For the late Queen's generation, teatime was sacrosanct: a pause in the day to reflect and refresh. For the monarch herself, it was also a cherished private time in a life devoted to public service.

The horror of October 7 can’t be separated from the centuries of anti-Jewish violence that preceded it. Opinion.

Parading victims has been a very common feature in the history of Palestinian Arab violence against Jews. Modern technology has given us a new twist on this old horror—perpetrators of the October 7 ...

It was in 1960 that a close friend invited me to an event by the local chapter of DeMolay, which was similar to the Masons ...

In his latest novel, Mahmoud Maher narrates the story of Christopher Columbus’s “discovering” of the Americas by using the ...

But defiant, independent and even rebellious nuns are hardly a new phenomenon. The 2020s especially have seen nuns defy the often unexamined assumptions that religious women, hidden behind their ...

A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without ...

Despite harsh punishments and strict moral codes, affairs still happened—often more than you'd expect. Behind closed doors, ...