Earlier this week, in Gaza City, Israel carried out an air strike on a school which about 350 displaced families were using as a shelter. Many of these families had recently arrived from the nearby ...

Dr Jeremy Hill, left, tells KATHERINE MACALISTER how he went about the daunting task of selecting artefacts to tell the history of the world. Where do you start with the history of the world? No, I ...

THE fascinating stories behind a selection of objects and artefacts from the First World War will be the subject of a talk this weekend. Military historian Professor Peter Doyle will discuss The First ...

Mikhail Gorbachev is an object lesson in the dangers inherent in moving a corrupt, highly-centralised autocratic government in which the individual is a servant of the party and state to a fairer and ...

Big chunks of the history of the Covid pandemic were rewritten over the last month or so in a way that will have terrible consequences for many years to come. Under questioning by a congressional ...

Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, ...

A simple note left on the windshield probably would have saved Marie-Josée Fortin's life. And if she and her husband had carried a satellite beacon that sells for about $140 (U.S.) and is quickly ...

DESIGN Object Lesson in Beauty When future archaeologists excavate the ruins of Los Angeles and New York, they are more likely to judge the 20th century’s standards of beauty by shards of Corning Ware ...