Destinations

In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported on how France felt about this reckoning with its dark past.

Some 450 rural schools close each year, as Japanese increasingly migrate to cities. Now, some are being transformed into unique inns close to nature.

For centuries, the people of Odisha have turned to pakhala – a fermented rice dish – to beat the heat. Now it's gaining global attention.

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by Hollywood.

Scandinavian interior style isn’t all about minimalist living and identikit furniture. Here's why abundance, exuberance and "luxe cosiness" are still popular today.

Before the internet took over the world, California rock band The Grateful Dead were among the first – and most influential – forces at the dawn of online communication.

One hundred and sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is honouring Juneteenth all year round.