Although many major European cities are considered iconic, none of them break into the top 10 most populous cities in the ...

What an awful situation it has been to watch the devastation unfold in Los Angeles and the wildfires have touched every ...

1840: The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island, killing 139. 1864: American songwriter Stephen Foster dies aged 37.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenka's presidential election may not compete with the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it ...

The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in ...

In 1991, the dying days of the Soviet Union, a letter arrived at the BBC’s Moscow bureau addressed to me ... brown and white for downtown San Francisco; bright yellow for Tokyo; swirls of blue and ...

Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double ...

Vladimir Putin is rumoured to have taken a secret break this week at his bolthole mountain palace where he 'bathes ... after a flight from Moscow on Monday, New Year's Eve under the calendar ...

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of a news conference following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland ...

Arsenal were 2-0 up against Aston Villa in the second half but had to settle for a point after an impressive comeback from ...

Senior Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad said on Monday the Iran-backed group's opponents were seeking its fragmentation and ...

A freight train exploded at a railway station in the Moscow region, according to Ukraine. Ukraine's intelligence agency the GUR said that the incident on Friday morning destroyed carriages that ...