As she cycled past his garage, Sam was bowled over.  He had just a few seconds to decide whether to react.  He did – and a new future...

When it comes down to it, it’s a question of competence.  Can those we elect actually do the job?  Otherwise, it can all end in tears....

The warning was clear enough, even so they kept coming.  And coming, one after another - until they had no choice but to turn around at...

So there we were on the Jungfraujoch, in conversation with a family from Malaysia.  And then the inevitable question:  “And where are you...

Liebe Leute! So our destination this morning is the highest railway station in Switzerland and in Europe, some 3,454 metres above sea...

Rather than just stay and watch, I decided to join in,  I knew it was going to be easy-peasy.  After all, I’ve been running regularly now...

One of the key events in world history, 8th November 1519, as conquistador Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan, the splendid capital of...

Jeremy Paxman: Parkinson's 'makes you wish you hadn't been born' This headline in this morning’s BBC news website caught my eye, not...

Heaven is not what you think.  Certainly not harp-strumming angels, with little lambs cared for by a carefully coiffured, blue-eyed...

The young firefighter, open-eyed and apprehensive, runs up the stairwell as everyone else runs down. Within minutes the North Tower is...

Will there be corridors in God’s new heaven and earth, in his glorious future?  Probably not. Personally I blame John Thorpe who in 1597...

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”  So begins the Bible, with Genesis 1:1. “When I think there was a day when a...

“Of course, you will have to forget everything you have learned so far!” It’s October, 1967 and I am having my first supervision with our...

So firebrand George Galloway, of the Workers Party, easily wins Rochdale with 39.7% of the vote after a divisive and controversial...

I was totally flummoxed.  No way could I work it out. Why do I have a moving image from about five metres above my car? This Tuesday I...

"It was just brilliant," Nisha Capper tells Newsbeat. "I never thought I'd be partying in the cathedral. Halfway through the night, I was...

Strangely I found myself seated in the very same place occupied by Prince Harry just nine months previous, three rows back and towards...

“I can’t put on a brave face any longer. I want to give up.” She continues: “How wonderful it would be to rest both my shoulders and my...

¡Hola! Did you know that going on holiday represents 13 points on the Holmes and Rahe stress scale?  Okay, that’s much less than hassle...

So Jesus sends his disciples on their first mission.  Lesson #1 – learn how to fail. Of course we are all wary of failure, to think that...