Across North America, Native communities are carrying on relay racing—a time-honored, high-adrenaline tradition.

Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their dynasty produced two popes—are they worthy of this notorious legacy?

In 'Gods, Guns and Missionaries', Manu Pillai describes how the British Raj led to the birth of Hindu nationalism in India.

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Stalin killed hundreds of Ukrainian cultural figures in the ‘Executed Renaissance’. Over 100 Ukrainian artists have been ...

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the "Mona Lisa," when a painting stopped me in my tracks.

Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a golden sun, ...

A global industrial renaissance, driven by the energy transition and advancing digitalisation, has created demand for ...

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HAMMOND, La. ( WGNO) — With a hood over his head, everyone in old-world Europe knew who the executioner was. His likeness ...

An American chemist travels to England to set up his last big deal, introducing a new designer drug to the European market, ...

From Mechelen in Belgium and Porvoo in Finland to Veere in the Netherlands and Sokobanja in Serbia, we’ve tracked down the ...