Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones played for the first time together as The New Yardbirds. The name Led Zeppelin only occurred to them later after a derogatory comment by fellow musicians....

The Day of the Open Monument offers a chance for a guided tour of unusual, often off-bounds architectural monuments. But are you aware of these 10 German public monuments, all of them top tourist attractions? The...

Prison camp, illness, unrequited love — music that endures over decades and centuries often emerges from difficult situations. These composers turned their personal experiences into symphonies, sonatas and concertos. 1. Hard of hearing, then deaf: Ludwig...

Like boiled eggs, beans on toast or digestive biscuits, the bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich is such an everyday item it is easy to forget that it exists. While “bubble-wraps” and broccoli coffee hog the headlines, the BLT occupies a...

Throughout seven years of war, the Kurds of Syria’s north have been a wildcard. Their loyalties have remained uncertain and their push for autonomy buffeted by a raging conflict that has consumed almost all before it. As...

Hundreds of thousand of people in more than 90 countries are expected to take part in demonstrations this weekend to protest about the failure of politicians to tackle the global environmental crisis. Organisers say more than...

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has voiced doubts about claims that far-right mobs chased non-Germans during recent violent demonstrations in Chemnitz, clashing directly with Angela Merkel’s version of events. Hans-Georg Maaßen said in an...

After Serbia’s President cancelled his planned meeting with his Kosovo counterpart, the EU is planning a new meeting between the two leaders amid a sudden worsening of relations The EU said it was planning a new...

The case of Georgi Markov, the anti-Communist Bulgarian dissident poisoned in London in 1978 by a secret service operative – in a operation reminiscent of the Skripal case – still divides Bulgaria after all these years....

The government says it will summon intelligence chiefs for a grilling before parliament, as concern grows over the sudden detention and expulsion of a number of Turkish teachers. Moldova’s Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, and the Speaker...