Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They ...

For the first time, the immense reclining Vishnu statue from the Western Mebon, a national treasure of Cambodia, will be ...

At least 13 people - mostly from Syria’s Druze community - were killed and 17 others injured in armed clashes that erupted ...

But that doesn’t adequately define the disease of a metzora, known in Hebrew as tzaraat. Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz,the 16th ...

WE looked back at what made Hexham Courant headlines up to 150 years ago in the Tyne Valley.

At Almindsø, there are several natural swimming pools enclosed by circles of overwater decking. Slåensø, meanwhile, is said ...

Late pontiff visited nine countries in the region and north Africa, cultivating ties between Christians and Muslims ...