Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
Spain’s exiled former monarch, Juan Carlos I, has released a memoir revealing for the first time how Francisco Franco summoned him to be his heir, a decision that reshaped Spanish history. The
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Summary: In this essay, Martina Moneke explores what America can learn from the decline of the Roman Republic. She examines how inequality, political factionalism, and unchecked ambition eroded civic trust and institutional stability
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally printed in New Lanka magazine in the mid-1950s. Any attempt to write of the character of a people is bound to be inadequate. Mistakes are
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Israeli researchers have identified five million of the more than six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, marking a historic milestone in Yad Vashem’s decades-long mission to restore the names and stories
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NASA has dismissed a recent claim by reality star Kim Kardashian suggesting that the 1969 moon landing was faked. During an episode of the television series The Kardashians, Kardashian told actress Sarah
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The spectacular heist of jewellery from the Louvre museum in Paris has many people wondering how a theft like this could occur in broad daylight and what might happen to the items
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The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) developed a detailed reparations claim in collaboration with the Valvettithurai Citizens’ Committee that was submitted Friday to the Sri Lankan Office for Reparations seeking USD $15 million
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On a blustery September afternoon in Tuam, 20 miles north of Galway, the quiet streets of the Dublin Road estate conceal a harrowing past. Behind the rows of late-1970s terraced houses, a
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In January 1968, the frozen silence of Greenland’s North Star Bay was shattered by the crash of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons, scattering plutonium across the ice and
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The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species (published in 1859)
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Editor’s note: This is an edited extract from Mark Curtis’ book Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World. British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the
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A recently declassified CIA report paints a striking picture of Soviet society in the early 1980s, revealing widespread public disillusionment, social tensions, and a craving for strong leadership—an era eerily reminiscent of
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both
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The discovery of a million-year-old skull in China has forced scientists to reconsider the origins and timeline of modern humans, Times UK reports. Known as Yunxian 2, the skull was unearthed in
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Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable power in the hands of national elites. The modern sociological concept
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