FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

Sharon Dutton, descendant of "Jack The Ripper" victim Catherine Eddowes, is seeking justice for her great-great-great aunt. "We want justice for Catherine and all the other victims," Dutton said ...

Cellphone messages provide a cherished link for Ukrainians whose partners are away fighting, but when the answers dry up, the ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Catherine wasn't called “The Great” for nothing. Though she was one of the most enlightened women in the world, behind closed ...

Elon Musk, who is doing much of the crushing, has said that he thinks about the fate of the Roman empire every day and ...

EUR/GBP is offered again this morning as the market is dominated once more by the tariff story, ING's FX analyst Chris Turner ...

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

More than 350 people had to be evacuated because their properties were at risk during the blaze in August - with some ...

A copper coin discovered by a schoolchild in a park in Espoo last month is believed to be about 230 years old. A local ...

Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...