A team from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has uncovered a long-lost secret passageway from the time ...

There was already a smallish shadow fleet of antiquated tankers carrying embargoed oil from Venezuela and Iran, but the ...

VILNIUS – Following Russia's renaming of the memorial museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis, a pioneer of Lithuanian literature, in a village in Kaliningrad Region to the Museum of Literature, President ...

Princess Michael of Kent celebrated her 80th Birthday on Wednesday, January 15. The royal, born Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, ...

Akademik Lomonosov — named after 18th century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov — is docked on the icy shores of the East Siberian Sea. The vessel houses two small lightwater reactors with ...

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn't ...

A new documentary on BBC 2 will tell the story of an 18th Century water mill which was uncovered in the heart of Bristol.

President-elect Donald Trump is again signaling his interest in Greenland through a series of provocative statements in which he’s mused about the prospect of the U.S. taking ownership — perhaps by ...

How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and ... An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian ...

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