Charles Darwin: Scientist explains origin of life theory For those trying to re-create the spark of life, the Chemoton theory offers an attractive target for experiments on how physical entities formed on Earth billions of years later. This model, first put forward
GEORGE BLAKE, a British spy who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow.
The EU is arguably going through its worst ever confidence crisis. Regardless of the current state of Brexit talks, Britain’s departure presents an unprecedented challenge to the bloc’s future credibility. Throw in the row between member states over the EU’s coronavirus recovery
During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow came within touching distance of nuclear war in a bitter spat that would last more than four decades. Most historians agree this threatened to boil over during the Cuban Missile Crisis when Nikita Khrushchev fulfilled
The 80-year-old British singer claimed to have been the “first internationally-known Western popstar to tour Russia” in the Seventies. He performed inside the country, when it was known as the Soviet Union, at the height of the Cold War. Sir Cliff revealed
On the whole, the architecture of the former Soviet Union was uniform and dreary – but a recently published photography book reveals that there were some gems, from a ‘flying saucer’ building to an office block that resembles a game of Jenga.
The Jihad Museum in the Afghan city of Herat sits in a hillside garden, surrounded by blooming rose bushes and the detritus of the war against the Soviet Union – a war that claimed thousands of lives in this city alone. A
The Jihad Museum in the Afghan city of Herat sits in a hillside garden, surrounded by blooming rose bushes and the detritus of the war against the Soviet Union – a war that claimed thousands of lives in this city alone. A