Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Credit: Domenico Ghirlandaio / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the ... the ...

Taken as boys and trained for war, the Janissaries became the most feared infantry in the world - the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. Germany responds to Putin with a deployment not seen ...

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave ...

New car registrations increased by 2.6 per cent in 2024, according to data revealed today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Sales increased to 1.953 million units, with ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching ...

The official report states that US business activity growth picked up momentum in March “as a marked upturn in the service sector offset a renewed fall in manufacturing output.” The Composite ...

As Myanmar grapples with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a larger question looms—could this natural disaster foreshadow the collapse of the ruling military junta? The earthquake ...

The Ottoman Empire would eventually fall in 1914. More widely, the Crimean War saw the balance of power change hands in Europe. Whilst Russia suffered a major defeat, Austria, which had chosen to ...

It was once named Shadiabad (City of Joy) by a former monarch and has witnessed the rise and fall of numerous dynasties. First established in 600 BC, Mandu's moment of glory came first under King ...

The U.S. warned of an increased possibility of attacks in Syria during the Eid el-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Eid could begin in Syria on Sunday depending ...