This chapter of history reveals another fundamental fact: The post-World War II international order established the basis for ...

With few qualified people available, Jawaharlal Nehru took a bet on unusual diplomatic candidates in newly independent India ...

The range of Sam Dalrymple’s book Shattered Lands is expansive. An ambitious debut, it talks about the five partitions of the lands that comprise modern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar—as well ...

Hong Kong, 1941. Newly-wed Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn floated into Victoria Harbor on a Pan-Am clipper. She was to cover the Sino-Japanese ...

Adm. Stephen Koehler gave assurances of U.S. commitment to help defend freedom of passage and the rule of law in the ...

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

Food Empire will invest $37m to expand its spray-dried soluble coffee manufacturing facility in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a letter of nomination for U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel ...

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...