Vilnius in Lithuania may not come to mind when you think of a European city break, but it really should - the city is ...

At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum.

Mozart’s contemporary Antonio Salieri in the movie “Amadeus,” is depicted as jealous of Mozart, so ferociously that he poisons Mozart. The climax of the movie finds Salieri full of regret, ...

Manchester United and Tottenham put their inconsistent domestic campaigns aside and advanced to Europa League round of 16. Diogo Dalot tapped in a precise cross by Kobbie Mainoo on the ...

In Syria the provisional government led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham has removed the term “gods” and images of statues from the school curriculum. Men destroy statues so that the statues do not destroy ...

One of the early puzzles you can find in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features a tomb below the Vatican, surrounded by ten robed skeleton statues bearing torches you can light, and roman ...

As Holocaust Memorial Day approaches, the haunting memories of Auschwitz survivor Yisrael Abelesz echo through the halls of ...

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The C919 has yet to secure airworthiness certifications from either America’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), two authorities whose ...

The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) will hold its 346th plenary session in Strasbourg from 20 to 23 January 2025. This first plenary session of 2025 will focus notably on the adoption of ...