The BBC's Russian service marks its 80th anniversary this week. In eight decades, it has grown from a shortwave radio service to a multimedia operation reaching upwards of six million people per week, ...

In September 1999, just weeks after 46-year-old Vladimir Putin became Russia’s prime minister, a series of apartment bombings ripped through Russian cities, killing hundreds as they slept and plunging ...

The Shetland Islands are famed for their remote beauty but for locals this comes at a cost. Now campaigners are pushing for the island’s ageing ferries to be replaced with undersea tunnels. “The ferry ...

In what sounds like a scene from a science fiction thriller, a humanoid robot has been arrested by police after terrifying an elderly woman in China. According to local authorities, the 70–year–old ...

Music, Makers and Machines celebrates the history of the genre, highlighting the people, sounds and technologies that helped ...