The 64-year-old Yan Pei-Ming is a contemporary artist who has been living in France since 1981. He is known for his “epic-sized” portraits of figures such as Chairman Mao, St. Pope John Paul II, Bruce ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

Claude is in prison for attempting to murder his wife, which he claims was an accident, but could nevertheless keep him ...

There is no reason to expect that he will nurture the relations between our country and our state or with the people of ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

Authorities indicted four men for allegedly “groom[ing] and then coerc[ing] minors to produce child sexual abuse material and images of self-harm.” ...

Before an Auburn man was sentenced to prison Thursday for raping a minor, he heard a message from the victim. Weston R. Rhodes, 30, was sentenced in Cayuga County Court that morning for second ...

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

A former surgeon has been accused of abusing 299 young patients, many of whom were under anesthetic, with his case set to go ...

Hoa Lo Prison, known for its role in Vietnam's colonial resistance and the Vietnam War, provides a compelling glimpse into ...