Witness

Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food

In 1994, biotech company Calgene brought the world's first genetically-modified food to...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit

The kiwi fruit is synonymous with New Zealand in the minds of most European and American...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

Inventing Nutella

In 1946, Italian confectioner Pietro Ferrero set out to bring chocolate to the masses. His recipe...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis

In 1949, Mildred Gillars – otherwise known as Axis Sally – became the first woman in American...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

In the 1960s, the singer Dafydd Iwan started campaigning for the Welsh language to gain official...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

In 2014 three journalists were sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt. Peter Greste, Mohammed...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda

In late 1973, Chile was in turmoil. General Augusto Pinochet had led a military coup deposing the...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

The assassination of King Faisal

On 25 March 1975, Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal was murdered, shot by his nephew as he bent to kiss...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

Tsunami devastates Samoa

On 29 September 2009, a devastating tsunami hit Samoa, killing 149 people and leaving a trail of...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison

In June 2009, millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest against what they considered a...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

The funeral of Nelson Mandela

On 15 December 2013, South Africa held the funeral of Nelson Mandela who led the struggle in...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

In 1983, the disappearance of a teenage girl who was a citizen of Vatican City led to a scandal....

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Anna Akhmatova: the poet who defied a regime

The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova lived through some of the darkest chapters of Soviet...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

In 1998, Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin shocked the nation with a last-minute decision to speak...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

Murder of the Romanovs

As civil war raged in Russia, on 17 July 1918, the imprisoned royal family were told they were to...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

On 21 April 1967, a group of right-wing army officers seized power in Greece to prevent the...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets

In 1945, two Danish scientists opened an institute to study mental illnesses. In the four...

• 2
• 0
• 4 meses

La Haine: The film that shocked France

In 1993, film director Mathieu Kassovitz started work on what would become a cult cinema classic,...

• 1
• 0
• 4 meses

World's first solar-heated home

In December 1948, a family of Hungarian refugees moved into the world's first home to be heated...

• 1
• 0
• 5 meses

Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

After Tanzania, then called Tanganyika, became independent from Britain in 1961, the country's...

• 2
• 0
• 5 meses