The famous Mona Lisa painting has no eyebrows. When Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he included eyebrows, but over time they were eroded due to cleaning, to the point where they are no longer ...

Earlier this year, Jaco Lochner argued that claims that “whites own most land” in South Africa are unverified. Without a national cadastre, ownership remains un ...

"The Eastern question" : the occupation of Tunisia and Egypt, 1881-1882. France and imperialism -- Tunisia -- Great Britain and imperialism -- Egypt -- The Sudan and the Nile -- The Congo and the ...

United States President Donald Trump’s administration is facing a political and legal firestorm over reports that its military carried out a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, which ...

Indiana state Senator Mike Gaskill, a Pendleton Republican, declared on Thursday that a "second civil war has already started" in the United States, as he urged his colleagues to back an ultimately ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pointed to what he called “the fog of war” in defending a follow-up military strike on an alleged drug boat in September that reportedly killed survivors of the initial ...

Several legal experts have told BBC Verify that the second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat by the US military was probably illegal, and would likely be considered an extrajudicial killing ...

Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal? By Charlie Savage and ...

After nearly two weeks with no cricket after the chaos of Perth the Ashes resumes in Brisbane on Thursday. Australian and England will lock horns in a pink ball Test at the Gabba with the hosts ...

In one minute, we retrace the Philippine Wars, beginning with the 1896 revolution against Spanish rule, through the Spanish-American War of 1898, and the Philippine-American War that followed. Using ...

Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny. By Charlie Savage Julian E. Barnes Eric Schmitt and John ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime, legal experts say. It doesn't matter whether the U.S. is in "armed ...