Spain took the coastal city of Melilla by force and acquired Ceuta by treaty. Both events took place centuries ago — and both ...

What appears to be a copper shark has gotten stuck in a South Korean canal. Experts say the shark probably chased prey into ...

Several thousand US troops are leaving their remaining bases in Iraq by the end of the day tomorrow. US soldiers have been ...

Dismissed in Taiwan as simply propaganda, the Chinese television show “Jiaofeng,” or “Long Watch,” has proved a sensation ...

The Moscow Times and TV Rain are two of the most prominent independent Russian newsrooms in exile. After being forced to ...

Several thousand US troops are pulling up stakes in Iraq, leaving their remaining bases by the end of the day tomorrow. US ...

British authorities are investigating whether a foreign state was involved in an apparent plot to attack an airbase used by the US military. Five masked men were arrested near an RAF base in England ...

A classically trained cellist in the Midwest finds new inspiration in the music of her youth, from Turkish folk tunes to funk.

A new database holds close to 4 million records of people enslaved in British colonies from the Caribbean to South Africa ...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a growing problem. Much of it ends up in Ghana and Nigeria, where informal recycling ...

The right of the dead to be buried is a theme so ancient that Sophocles’ heroine Antigone gave her fictional life for it ...

Teenagers across Latin America are turning an internet joke into a real-world competition. In “aura battles,” participants ...