Just as he explores the rich history of the Aztecs on the latest series of Civilisations: Rise and Fall on BBC Two, historian ...

The meeting of the controversial Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the formidable Emperor Montezuma in 1519 was one of the great hinge moments of world history, and the beginning of the end for ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

Hurricane Melissa is expected to weaken into an extratropical cyclone on Friday, Oct. 31, the National Hurricane Center said.

The Jamaican government said it had done all it could to prepare as it warned of devastating damage from the strongest ...

Hurricane Melissa is moving quickly away from Bermuda and is expected to become extratropical on Friday, according to the ...

Melissa is one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic Basin, killing at least 32 people.

Hurricane Melissa made second landfall in Cuba with 120 mph winds after becoming strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica with 185 mph winds Tuesday.

Its intensity at landfall appeared to tie an all-time Atlantic Basin record. But the devastation in Jamaica wasn't all ...

Melissa made landfall on the south coast of Cuba as an "extremely dangerous hurricane" early Wednesday, after barreling through Jamaica a day earlier.

Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 hurricane Tuesday and make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in ...