The Chain Bridge, one of Budapest's landmarks, was officially opened on 20 November 1849. Exactly one hundred years later, on ...

When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the ...

Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as the “Victory ...

A ceasefire has taken effect between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah JERUSALEM -- A ceasefire has taken effect between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah after nearly 14 months of cross-border ...

Over a thousand students and dozens of educators offered ideas for how to have meaningful discussions about difficult topics. Here are some practical ideas — for use in or out of school. By ...

A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York ...

putting pressure on Kyiv to bolster its fighting forces in the country's war with Russia. US urges Ukraine to lower fighting age to 18 to bolster ranks against Russia ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the use of the new missile was “a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war.” Ukraine’s energy system came “under ...

UK carmakers have pledged not to send cars to Russia, with sanctions formally banning the export of "dual use" items which could be repurposed as weapons in the Ukraine war. But data from HM ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...

One of the rarest finds at Løsning was the 1,500-year-old chainmail shirt. “Only a very small number of chainmail shirts from ...

The Ukrainian president said NATO membership would have to be offered to unoccupied parts of Ukraine to end the "hot phase of the war", as long as the NATO invitation itself recognises Ukraine's ...