The leader of Majorca has become the first government official to apologise for the execution of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition – centuries after the events. Francesc Antich, the regional ...

British heroes of a battle that changed the course of the Korean war remembered their fallen comrades at a memorial service in South Korea on Saturday. On the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a giant statue of Egypt's famous pharaoh Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities authority said on Tuesday. The 13-metre-tall ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of medieval industry on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds town centre. The clay ovens and leather tanneries appear to date from the 12th-16th Centuries. Housing ...

Kate Middleton won’t be the nation’s first Queen Catherine, so there is plenty for her to live up to – and to avoid Catherine has not been a lucky name for English monarchs; the first Queen Catherine ...

They rumble down city boulevards and country roads across Cuba: 1950s Fords, Buicks and Pontiacs, some in mint condition, others on the verge of collapse. But a new law regulating property ownership ...

This September names will be unveiled at the National September 11th Memorial in New York City. The names of those killed in 1993. The names of those killed at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania and at the ...

A university lecturer is calling for the rejection of a plan to build houses next to the site of a Roman settlement in Nottinghamshire. Caunton Properties Ltd, who were unavailable for comment, want ...

Jeff Parness still remembers the pain of September 11, 2001, when his friend and business partner, Hagay Shefi, was among the thousands killed in the World Trade Center attacks. But Parness, a native ...