'Turkish village becomes latest doomsday hotspot', ran one headline last week. This is the news that 60,000 people are descending on a small Turkish village, where it is thought the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven:
The popular myth of the Borgia family involves poison, incest, orgies and general tyranny. But beyond the Showtime version, how many of the tales are true? And if they aren’t true, where do they come