Following Columbus’s landmark voyage, Spain and Portugal found themselves in a race for global dominance. To prevent open ...

The treaty seeks to protect large parts of the world's oceans, which remain ungoverned and vulnerable to over-fishing, climate change and deep-sea mining Victoria Seabrook ...

Oprah Winfrey has made her latest book club selection, and this time it's a fan favorite. "The River is Waiting" by Wally Lamb (out now from Simon & Schuster), a propulsive crime novel following a ...

KUCHING: On Nov 16, 1924, a peacemaking ceremony in Kapit brought a formal end to tribal conflicts among the indigenous communities in Sarawak's interior.

On 20 September 1519 the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan left Spain and headed westwards on a voyage that would subsequently echo through the centuries as the first circumnavigation of the ...

The book is divided into several parts- the tables give details for the railways of Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries throughout the world: a diagram ...

Wicklow TD who signed Anglo-Irish Treaty is focus of new book Dunlavin historian Chris Lawlor, author of Robert Barton: a Remarkable Revolutionary. Robert Barton, 1881 to 1975.

Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i impresses with its dual-screen OLED design and speedy performance, even if this twin-screened innovator won't suit everyone. This laptop is worth considering for early ...

This year marks 150 years since the signing of Treaty 4 in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask. The Regina/Treaty Status Indian Services (RT/SIS) executive director said 150 years is a big milestone and is ...

In 1494, two European neighbours signed a treaty at Tordesillas on the Douro river, agreeing to share power over the Atlantic and the Americas along a meridian that would cut the entire world into ...