Edward Carson, one of the founding figures of Northern Ireland, had contracted bronchial pneumonia in June 1935 but by July ...

India got its first Indian Naval Chief eleven years after Independence. Vice Admiral R.D. Katari was appointed Chief of the ...

Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach – a thousand years before Columbus, to daring polar ...

For centuries, the imperial palace at the heart of China’s capital was off-limits to commoners. When the Qing dynasty fell, ...

Why Chester was more than 27 times more common in the United States is a bit mysterious. Its American popularity began in New ...

New Orleans’s reputation as a party town, thanks largely to the annual celebration of Mardi Gras, looms large. Bourbon Street ...

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A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

An accident on the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway killed 13 people on Sunday, September 28. A matatu crashed with a heavy trailer on the highway, killing 12 on the spot.

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Last Wednesday, a Nairobi court ordered that five police officers and a prisons officer be detained for 10 days to allow ...

Following India's Operation Sindoor, a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander admitted severe damage to their Muridke headquarters. This admission follows similar revelations from Jaish-e-Mohammed regarding their ...