Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

While the statement has shocked many, it aligns with Israel’s long-standing expansionist policies, backed by Western allies ...

Scientists exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef have uncovered a towering new reef that rises 500 meters (about 1,600 ...

This indicates a lack of knowledge about British colonial history, and a cultural aphasia surrounding Scotland’s active participation in “painting the map red ... that they wish Scotland had had its ...

London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...

"The Munshi Aziz Bhat [museum] doesn't have to, and should not, be the British Museum or the Smithsonian ... from places like Lhasa or Yarkand. At its height, Bhat's hub housed traders and goods ...

Its origins go back more than a century ... following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled that part of the Middle East. An Arab majority and a Jewish minority lived there, as ...

It ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. Heedless to wise counsel and ...

In the height of summer ... Britain declared its protectorate over the Tswana lands, which asked for the protection of the empire from German colonizers. Thus the quasi-state of Bechuaneland was ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

The museum in central London, which attracts almost 6 million visitors a year, closed its temporary exhibitions ... during the period of the British Empire – notably the Parthenon Marbles ...