On “Mrs Dalloway’s” 100th birthday, I did the predictable thing and re-read my old copy of Virginia Woolf’s slim yet dense ...

Religion in the Roman empire or what we tend to call paganism was really very much a public affair. It was a blend of belief in the old deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons. The kind of ...

Yankees World Series Champion, St. Louis' Last AL All-Star, Dies at 97 ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

As part of that postcolonial empire, French paratroopers (among the world’s toughest special forces) shuttled in and out of northern Africa, conducting more than 40 interventions from 1960 to 2002.

His empire had disintegrated at the end of the first world war, and after a couple of attempts to regain his throne he was shipped off into exile on Madeira, together with his wife and seven ...

With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, a roomful of 60-year-old men nearly broke out into a brawl because by November 1943, America had changed.

Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released ...