BBC World Service - Witness History

Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa

Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998

The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945

How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s

Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist

How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation

It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.

Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India