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Like a pink-clad human piston, Dara stormed onto the Eurovision stage last month to give a rousing rendition of her Bulgarian pop song, Bangaranga, all flinging limbs and acrobatics and fur-topped, fingerless, leather-pink gl...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages: A Journey Into the Medieval Mind, Peter Jones, Hutchinson Heinemann, £20

In the early years of the 11th century, a monk named Eilmer jumped from the top of a Wiltshire tower. Assisted by wings fitted ...

Simon Schama is not only a great historian but a consummate broadcaster. His much-lauded, most recent documentary, The Road to Auschwitz, may be his finest work, certainly the most personal for a Jewish man born in London just a couple of weeks after the liberatio...

‘Zelensky has proven that Ukraine is not ready to be part of the European family,’ an angry Polish President Karol Nawrocki told journalists, adding that he was considering stripping Zelensky of Poland’s highest state honour, the Order of the White Eagle. Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa announced he was withdrawing support for Zelensky and w...

The South Caucasus is beginning to shed some of the gloomy epithets that have clung to it over the years. It is no longer ‘conflict-wracked’ or ‘turbulent’ and sometimes nowadays even the opposite. Since the start of the Iran conflict at the end of February, flight maps have shown a narrow band of aeroplanes swarming across the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian...