In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

During the Great Depression, the value of Cook Islands exports suddenly collapsed—by 1935 it was just one third of the 1925 figure—and the New Zealand government slashed its funding for the territory ...

rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th-century slave law. Nearly 10 months after closing ...

We're back in Premier League action for Sunday's game against Chelsea at Emirates Stadium. The match kicks off at 1.30pm UK time and if you haven’t got a ticket then supporters around the world can ...

LONDON (AP) — A British jury on Thursday convicted a United Nations judge of forcing a young woman to work as a slave after tricking her into coming to the U.K. Prosecutors said Lydia Mugambe ...

Pacific Island nations navigated natural disasters, political upheaval and great power rivalry while asserting their ...

We're back in UEFA Champions League action for Wednesday's game against PSV Eindhoven at Arsenal Stadium. The match kicks off at 8pm UK time and if you haven’t got a ticket then supporters around the ...

“Last October, leaders from across the Commonwealth came together in Samoa to reaffirm their ‘belief in the value of the Commonwealth as a trusted forum where diverse voices of our member ...

suggested during a live stream on Tuesday that the president’s policy agenda is aimed at driving Black people "back to the fields" to the time of slavery. "They have decided to go after ...

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has defeated a no-confidence motion against her minority government for a second time in as many weeks. Fiame defeated the no-confidence vote by 32 votes ...

Read our privacy notice. A record high of almost 20,000 potential victims of modern slavery were referred into the system last year – a rise of 13% in 12 months. A total of 19,125 potential ...