Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

NEW YORK/LONDON Dec 13 (Reuters) - MSCI's global equity gauge fell on Friday while bond yields climbed as investors waited for clues about the future path for interest rates from next week's U.S ...

In case you need a refresher before we get into the timeline: before she started dating ... Breaking my heart,” and “The snow's gonna fall and the tree's gonna glisten / And I'm gonna puke ...

That’s what sells pay per views and tickets, and once you get to that superstar level, it’s hard to fall off the cliff. (Look at a 58-year-old Mike Tyson drawing 60 million viewers for a fight ...

HTS commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani visits the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and calls Assad’s fall “a victory for the Islamic nation.” Russian state news agencies later report Assad and his family are ...

AP An image of Syrian President Bashar Assad, riddled with bullets. A great many actors had a hand in the fall of Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that led ...

A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty ... A map of the Carolingian Empire's borders at its height in 814 C.E. (outlined in pink) and its subsequent partition in 843 ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not ...

Combined insights from 10 models of the worldwide climate suggest that temperatures are rising faster than previously expected. The alarming finding, published today in Environmental Research ...

With the fall of the al-Assad regime, Iran has lost a key pillar of its “Shia Crescent”. The land corridor it used to arm Hezbollah and project its influence in Lebanon and throughout the ...