They get a bad rep - but on the big screen, they're kings. On World Rat Day, Euronews Culture squeaks its mind by celebrating cinema's greatest rats.

Date palms grew throughout the desert regions that encompass modern day Israel and Palestine ... fruits mentioned in biblical texts, with their images adorning sacred garments and holy structures.

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead ... it is too late. Bubonic plague has come to Oran. Soon it is the ...

Even acquiring a thermometer has become, in our modern times, a travail ... dengue fever, and the bubonic plague. It doesn’t matter if you live next door to doting grandparents or employ ...

But beyond the age-old associations with disease and the spreading of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe ... This is the trouble with modern audiences – we're so quick to factlessly ...

But it’s clear the pandemic killed more people in a year than AIDS has killed in 40 years, more than the bubonic plague killed in ... medicine had barely become modern; some scientists still ...

Set in Oran, the fable unfolds with an outbreak of bubonic plague that kills hundreds of people a day and forces authorities to seal the gates to prevent the pestilence from spreading. The ...

During spring break season, when Michigan’s weather plays its usual fickle games – one day offering a tantalizing glimpse ... a welcome contrast to the overwhelming options that plague modern dining.

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...