The century of the Communist movement in India is a history of sacrifice, of ideological battles, of tremendous victories and ...

Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope ...

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The idea that one of his sons would one day become a Member of Parliament, and a Conservative one at that, and sit at the ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

The ruins of Tintagel Castle sit on a dramatic headland attached to southwest England’s Cornish coast. At the beginning of the fifth century A.D., the people of the province of Britannia found ...

In any kind of weather, Rob Levesque shows up for practice and games in shorts. “It’s like toast out here,” he tells his Southington High players. “That’s his superstition,” senior Beckett Colby says.

Mary Lee Minor gathered boughs of holly from friends and explores the plant's historical connection to Christmas.

Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...

A rare Roman-era mosaic discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland has been found to depict a forgotten version of the ...