The planets were aligning and Ed Stone was the man hired by Nasa to make the most of a one-in-176-year opportunity. An intern at the American space agency...

Joss Naylor was taking part in a 24-hour challenge running up and down 42 Lake District peaks when at about midnight he heard the bleating of a lamb in...

It was at the annual Kinus Hashluchim, a gathering of all the emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, that Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky could celebrate...

With half-time approaching in the third Test between the British Lions and South Africa in Pretoria on September 3, 1955, blood began seeping from the mouth...

The thousands of fans who flock to performances by the likes of Taylor Swift, Keane and Stormzy are likely to have only a passing interest in the logistics...

Janis Paige was an old-school theatrical trooper, a singer and actress with a “can-do” attitude who was ready to swing from the chandeliers — literally, if...

Whether Kinky Friedman could have got away today with singing a country ballad about the Holocaust called Ride ’Em Jewboy is doubtful. Nor is it likely that...

As a Swiss-based official for a cross-border governing body, Gerhard Aigner was versed in the moderate manners of international diplomacy. But on this...

Given the task of creating a new logo for the National Basketball Association, a designer named Alan Siegel took inspiration from a photograph of one of his...

Olga Rodriguez, a 21-year-old trainee teacher from Cuba, was growing frustrated at the country’s dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista. “We were so poor,” she...