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You can sleep over at this historic mountain refuge straddling the Italy-Switzerland border – but only if you're willing to undertake a days-long, high-altitude icy mountain trek.

Allan Ginsberg's graphic verse had a seismic effect on American society. When two people were put on trial for selling it, the judgement was a landmark moment in loosening censorship.

Energy grids, data networks, stock markets: how easy is it to shut down our modern world by attacking the systems that synchronise time and space? Meet the jammers finding out.

Here are some of the world's best new buildings that are immersed in their wild surroundings.

Putting our hands in soil and touching grass, trees or moss provides a wide range of health benefits, for our skin and wider immune system.

In 1978, Georgi Markov was killed with a poison-tipped umbrella. The following year, his widow and elder brother told the BBC how they were warned about the murder plot months before.

Modern life is ruining our wrists. We can all do something about it, but it helps to start early.