Alaa Emara

When an enormous mass of rock and ice broke away from Mount Langtang Lirung on the border between Nepal and Tibet on 26 August, it unleashed a…

On the afternoon of 22 November 1963, US President John F. Kennedy was travelling through Dealey Plaza in Dallas in an open car when gunshots rang…

The connection between a heatwave sweeping across a cattle farm and cheese served months later may seem remote, but cheesemaking is a chain of…

In Chicago on 13 July 1995, in the middle of a heatwave, the city recorded a temperature of 41.1 degrees Celsius (°C), while the heat index (the …

The story of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow robbing and murdering their way around America in the early 1930s captured the…

At noon on 24 June 1994, the men’s football match between Mexico and Ireland at Orlando’s Citrus Bowl in the United States became far more than a…

In August 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close after atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing…

In the first 29 minutes of the World Cup semi-final between Germany and Brazil on 8 July 2014, Germany scored five unanswered goals. The Brazilian…

The concept of the ‘attention economy’ can be traced back to the 1971 publication of an academic paper that was largely organisational and technical…

Research increasingly suggests that wars, conflicts, and major political ruptures do not pass through human life without consequence, but rather…