Franco-German chef Lucie Fischer-Chapalain discovers unusual ingredients and creates her own tasty and original dishes with them.

Belief, control, violence: The story of the most formidable, and spectacular, system of repression in European history.

A giant ball of gas with a temperature of up to 15 million degrees, the Sun is the origin of life on Earth and still holds many secrets...

It’s the most popular drink in the world after water and a major global industry.

Originating in Japanese manga culture from the 1980s, Cosplay has gone global in the decades since

Originally covering some 600,000 square kilometres, Canada's prairies have been largely converted to farmland over the last fifty years.

Said to drive away evil spirits, the pagan tradition of kukeri is alive and well in Bulgaria.

The myth of Monaco: from a remote fishing village to one of the richest countries in the world.

25 naked and languid women loll about as the viewer becomes the voyeur: this is The Turkish Bath by Ingres

ARTE Book Club studies Virginia Woolf’s original and influential essay on what has held back women from contributing to the arts.

What if it was exhausting to live up to the ideals of masculinity? From Antiquity to the present day, this is the story of virility.

The saint that became a gay icon

From the frontiers of the Roman Empire to the European Schengen area, a fascinating trip through the origins of borders.

According to a widely believed story, the vibrator was invented by male doctors to treat hysteria with orgasms.

Spectacular architecture for new museums and opera houses is now commonplace. But is the often eye-watering price tag worth the investment?

Life emerged about four billion years ago, but exactly where and how it started is unclear. 42 tries to find out the answer.

The Sistine Chapel could have looked very different...

The painting that caused a scandal

Lose weight effortlessly without dieting? That's what the weight-loss jab promise. A weekly injection and the pounds melt away.

Roma culture  is influencing fashion designers such as Spain’s Juana Martin.