Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of August.

Art historian Ania Diduch talks with photographer Wojtek Wieteska about erotic woodcuts, garden photography and a new kind of spatial thinking at the recent Kyotographie photography festival in Japan.

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of July.

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of June.

Our correspondent’s summary of last season’s sporting highlights, from Senegalese wrestling to steroids in steak.

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of May.

Kriya Yoga seminars are constantly organized in Europe and across the world. One of them will be held in Poland this autumn. During the weekend seminar, participants will learn the five-fold path of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars. Seven years later, her supervisor was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for this groundbreaking discovery, but Bell’s name was nowhere to be found. We tell her story.

Our correspondent’s sporting highlights from the ancient Olympic Games, including the greatest Olympian of all time, corruption and illegal gambling, and a healthy dose of bulls’ testicles.