Like traders in a souk, politicians keep tossing out new spending targets: 2%, 3% or even 5%. The decisive factor, however, ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

More than 8,000 years ago, Great Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a landmass known as Doggerland. It stretched ...

New research indicates that hominins appeared in Europe earlier than previously thought, changing the current understanding ...

However, a historical dispute over the exhumation of Polish victims of massacres by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II has proved a much more contentious issue for successive governments ...

In a bid to safeguard Tibetan heritage and counter China's territorial ambitions, the Tibetan Government in Exile is drafting a book and a map featuring original Tibetan ... around boundary issues and ...

A HISTORIC 154-year-old pub in Edinburgh has been named amongst some of Europe’s best bars by a prestigious international guide. The Canny Man’s, located on Morningside Road in the Scottish capital, ...

providing a comprehensive overview of European gas infrastructure and market data. The map, which was published Monday, January 13, includes historical gas demand and supply data for the period ...

When we asked more than 20 of Britain's leading historians to nominate the best historical movies of all time, we certainly weren't expecting this. So what did make the final list of the 100 best ...

The largest blaze, in the Pacific Palisades area is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history. More than 23,000 acres have now burnt. Placing the area affected on to maps of New York and ...

WARSAW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its neighbour's progress towards the European Union ...