Michael Jarka

It opened the door for everything that rapidly followed.

Witness history from the BBC World Service.

It's Pope John Paul's longest ever foreign tour, and it also promises to be his most gruelling.

Over a two-week period, he's scheduled to travel more than 30,000 miles, visiting Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and the Seychelles.

The vast expanse of Auckland City's largest and oldest recreational area, the Domain, is today a sea of faces looking towards a papal throne set on the special purple carpeted stage.

Thousands of people are here in celebration of the visit of Pope John Paul II.

It's seven o'clock on Wednesday the 3rd of October.

This morning Germany is one nation again.

The flag of unity was raised at the Reichstag at midnight.

Chef Bourdain shed his kitchen whites to shed some light on the business he's been in for more than a decade.