September 1 was the first, day of school in the sleepy North Ossetian town of Beslan, when parents, teachers and…
As the millennium loomed, Christianity in Africa blossomed to equal or surpass the number of its European adherents. African Christians…
The Columbine massacre was one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, its circumstances and aftermath inflicting untold trauma…
One of the positive legacies bequeathed to India by the Raj (as the British rule there was known) was the…
In March 1997 in a house in California police found 39 bodies lying neatly in their bunk beds, their heads…
There were 29 small children in the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School when Thomas Hamilton walked in and opened fire…
The euphoria of independence didn’t last long in most Balkan countries. As the former Yugoslavia fragmented, age-old sectarian, ethnic and…
Later, when the authorities pieced it together, it became obvious that the three mass killings were planned as one. The…
In 1990, when he took control of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh believed he was an angel with…