Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

The deaths in November of the three young Neapolitans, who took the risky jobs for about 25 euros, or $26, a day because they could not find better ones, highlighted how, despite Naples’s recent ...

High Court judge spoke directly to woman in her hospital bed before approving order for her to be force-fed The court heard the woman had expressed a wish to die, saying she had suffered from ...

Werther, a carefree and charming young writer, stumbles across the love of his life only to find out she's engaged. Against his best friend's urgings, Werther turns his world upside down in a ...

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Without Goethe, one might say, the great tradition of high culture that characterises modern Germany would never have begun; without Goethe, the archetypes of the national imagination – the raging ...

Before we pass through a door that will lead us into a new chapter of our lives, we often glance back to reflect on what we’re leaving behind. Last week, I gave an earnest overview ...

While the princess was often powerless, the snippets of evidence that we have about her present the life of a young woman ...