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I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air ...

The church had a pastor who really loved the sound of his own voice and he spoke for nearly two hours. His sermon, one day last December in South-East Nigeria, concerned the proper behaviour of men ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ...

Men were frequently rounded up during the German occupation of Rome, to be requisitioned as labour for the construction of the city’s defences – the Allied arrival at the gates of Rome was endlessly ...

Osborne proposed welfare cuts of £11 billion in June 2010 and a further £7 billion the following October; state pensions were protected by a ‘triple lock’ – they increased by whichever was the highest ...

For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly required if she were to conceive successfully. In early modernity, uroscopy ...

Early in Playboy, the first book in Constance Debré’s trilogy of novels about a woman whose life closely resembles Debré’s own, the narrator describes the feelings of intense boredom she began ...

The pain of toothache arrives long after the damage has been done. The process begins when bacteria in the mouth turn sugars from our food into acid, which etches the tooth’s enamel, allowing the ...

Through the post arrives an artefact of a vanished civilisation, trailing that nimbus of mystery and sadness and forsaken possibility that belongs to reminders of a world we have lost. It comes in the ...

Not many Edinburgh residents collect beach-cast seaweed, but when a winter storm leaves a strandline deposit on Portobello beach, it feels to me like a gift or a visitation from another world. Seaweed ...