It was an unlikely romance: he was a Venezuelan revolutionary and she was a shoemaker's daughter from rural East Yorkshire.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to Odesa as a "Russian city" and frequently invoked the notion of "liberating ...

Stepping into the Hermitage Museum feels like crossing a threshold between centuries. Light spills down the Jordan Staircase ...

Though it's a very distant connection, Dakota Fanning -- who played Jane in three "Twilight" films -- is related to England's Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton.

You can experience warm, sunny summer in hothouses and heated greenhouses in Moscow parks, managed by projects like Orchards ...

India’s royal treasures once dazzled the world, from the jewel-encrusted Peacock Throne to legendary diamonds like the ...

Discover new adult, young adult and kids titles at Manistee County Library’s six branches — find thrillers, memoirs, picture ...

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any other ...

Byzantine Patriarch Anthony warned the Church cannot endure without an empire, emphasizing their inseparable unity during ...

“These are Santa’s reindeer. But we are really lucky because Santa needs them only one day of the year. So we can fly them 364.” It’s a well-rehearsed line. Juha Kujala has uttered it many times over ...

This blog is now closed. Russia is ready to legally confirm it has no intention of attacking the EU or Nato, deputy foreign minister says The Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has said ...