On 12th August in the year 1530, the anti-Medici rebels surrendered the Italian city of Florence to the Imperial army of Emperor Charles...

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Some 24 hours after taking off in Melbourne on a Qantas jet I have touched down across the other side of the world in New York for the...

As Christmas carols blast at shoppers in swarming shopping centres and every conceivable surface is draped in tinsel and baubles I...