Homo DeusDuring the 20th century, humankind has managed to do the impossible: we have brought famine, plague and war under control. Today, more people die from obesity than from starvation; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed in war. We are the only species in earth's long history that has single handedly changed the entire planet, and we no longer expect any higher being to shape our

His feats with the club

The most striking absence from the Japanese cherry scene

from the rudimentary trajectory of routes to the most intricately detailed birds-eye views of land

that it's never too late to make peace with your past

a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded

After-school television meant a choice of 'Blue Peter' or 'Magpie'

Peek under the flap to reveal the flock of birds in the sky

They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them in the woods with his bare hands

The disappearance of a star high school student sends ripples through the town

And those you thought would help - the police

Historian and geographer Mike Hall pieces together the contemporary accounts and the surviving physical evidence to present

battled winds and storms