This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

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In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at ...

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For the first time in his nearly 12-year papacy, Pope Francis skipped his customary inflight press conference at the end of ...

Cemex has played a key role in the construction of a wastewater storage basin located near Paris’ Gare d’Austerlitz Railway Station, developed to prevent discharge from going into the River Seine. In ...

Edwina Bartholomew has shared the reason she has kept her cancer diagnosis a secret from her children. The Sunrise star revealed that she had been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML ...

Image caption, Isaac Guerendo of the San Francisco 49ers heads for a touchdown in snowy conditions against the Buffalo Bills.

Either killing your enemies, or being sacrificed to the gods.’ In the Inca Empire, they spoiled their children,” Millones chuckles. The book, titled 'Moctezuma and Atahualpa: Life, Passion and the ...

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There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...