The latest inquiry must discover how thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis C from blood products, and why it was covered up for so long, writes Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone

Convicted of treason for her infamous “Tokyo Rose” propaganda broadcasts during World War II, American Iva Toguri eventually spent nearly three decades waiting for her name to be cleared.

Vultures endangered due to drugs in carcasses

Christian Bale began his acting career as a lost little boy in Empire of the Sun. Now he's a murderer in American Psycho. He tells Libby Brooks about his battle to get the part - and why it cost him his teeth

early Christian sect in North Africa

Italian political party

The king of wine coolers is back.

Decomposition is a process perfectly suited to life on Earth. So, would future visitors to Mars have to change how they handle their dead?

There are lots of tricks out there for caramelizing onions in a fraction of the time. They may sound like a good idea, but caramelizing onions until deeply browned and sweet takes time and attention. Here's why.

a river-like series of large-scale urban parks located in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt.

The model whose image has appeared on some 1,300 romance novel covers also talks about sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber to reverse "the aging process."

A strip of metal and a wooden stake offers an obscure but effective way of gathering earthworms for fishing bait.

Everyone's got a friend who can be a bit tight with their money but a newly released study says don't be too hard on them -- it may actually cause them pain to part with their cash.

For many, throwing up or vomiting is the most dreaded form of an illness. As unpleasant as it is, your body is trying to do you a favor by making you throw up. It’s still a pretty horrible process bu…

The word dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word thaler (Czech tolar and Dutch word daalder or daler), a shortened version of the word Joachimthalers.

The German mathematician rediscovered a lost planet.

"The Wind Cries Mary" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix wrote the song as reconciliatory love song for his girlfriend in London Kathy Mary Etchingham. More recent biographical material indicated that some of the lyrics appeared in poetry written…

Chef Eduardo Garcia is thriving four years after a freak accident and a shocking diagnosis. A new documentary will tell his story.

The Baltic Way or the Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom"; Estonian: Balti kett; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš; Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands…

defunct UK whaling & sealing shipping company