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The man Kanisetti is referring to is the Chola emperor, Parantaka, “the foe-destroyer”, a third-generation ruler who “killed ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

On his new album The End of the Middle, the cult singer explores a nation defined by loss and alcoholism, via Lake District ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Lack of obligation to publish detection methods for patented new GMOs will unleash patent infringement lawsuits on farmers ...

His mother was a 16-year-old peasant girl called Caterina di Meo Lippi ... satisfying his insatiable appetite for knowledge. The human anatomy became one of his great interests. This was seeded during ...

Danilo Hernandez Ramos is a peasant leader and activist who currently serves as the chairperson of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP).

During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...

Julius D’Silva’s chief negotiator Vyacheslav Molotov is underused, but Alan Cox is quite delightful as the dependable ...

But there is a precedent for Mr Trump's political blitzkrieg: Mao Zedong. While Mao, who launched China's violent Cultural Revolution, and Mr Trump share little in the way of geography, ideology, or ...