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…
Luby’s Cafeteria was a popular restaurant on US Highway 190 at Killeen, Texas, right next to America’s biggest military base,…
The uneasy relationship between Tamils and Sinhala has persisted for centuries, with cyclical exchanges of political power effected by means…
Truthfully, what the world remembers best about Tiananmen Square in 1989 is one of the 20th century’s defining images: ‘Tankman’.…
In America, it is called a ‘spree killing’. In the UK, nothing like it had ever happened before, so it…
The history of the Middle East’s only democracy is soaked in the blood of Arabs who tried to destroy the…