British army officer in India Richard James Holwell Birch was born on this day ...

Mathematician John Napier predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700. 1728: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” premieres ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

Growing up, many of us hear about historical events that sound real, so we take them as fact. Yet, in … Continue reading ...

Singaporean restaurateur and cooking doyenne Violet Oon is closing her restaurant at Jewel Changi Airport after five years, ...

On September 12, 1965, during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, the Jat Regiment of the Indian Army penetrated 5o kilometers into Pakistan.

As we celebrate the Bard this weekend, our Writer at Large talks to the Scottish academic who has written the definitive account of the ...

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

Britain invaded Abyssinia in 1868 after Emperor Tewodros II took European hostages over a delayed letter to Queen Victoria British Army units are facing a battle over artefacts looted from ...

The Irish Revolution (1916 -1923) precipitated the emigration of many members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary, which benefitted police forces of the newly federated ...

Liri Albag, one of the IDF soldiers who was kidnapped on Oct. 7, "saved" Soussana. In an exclusive interview with Israeli Channel 12's investigative show "Uvda," Soussana recalled her captors ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. officials said ...