Meet Locusta, the most feared poisoner in ancient Rome—possibly the world’s first recorded serial killer. Employed by Nero and his mother Agrippina, she helped orchestrate the deaths of political ...

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?

Watch a live view of the Jerusalem skyline in Israel. The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian ...

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As global conflicts intensify—from airstrikes in Iran to the war in Ukraine—Guam stands once again at the center of U.S.

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is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible ...

The Israeli military on Monday targeted Tehran's notorious Evin Prison and two courts inside the compound, where political ...

As of Thursday morning, a Washington-based human rights group estimated at least 639 Iranians have been killed by Israeli ...

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With the US joining Israel in strikes on Iran, we take a look at where you might want to head if the conflict escalates.

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