An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel “could damage state security”, he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion.