Americans celebrating Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day can do so by toasting the legendary 69th Infantry Regiment. “The ...

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Ultra-Orthodox, who make up about 14 per cent of the population, have been exempted from military service since Israel’s ...

Jasper is believed to be of Irish descent, he served as an inspiration to Irish immigrants of Savannah before the Civil War. These men later came together in 1842 to form the Irish Jasper Greens ...

The Boston Irish Heritage Trail, where visitors can celebrate more than 300 years of Irish history in Boston, is expanding this summer. How to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day all across New England ...

Twisted steel rods wind through crumbling concrete like tree roots at the destroyed State Audit Office in Bangkok. Up to 80 construction workers were buried under tonnes of rubble, some surviving in ...

True scale of disaster caused by 7.7-magnitude earthquake may take days to emerge as countries around the world pledge ...

Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated ...

The soldiers of Saint Patrick’s Battalion are regarded as national heroes in Mexico and Ireland. M arch 17 is, of course, St.