The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...

Perry Miniatures took part in a big ol' battle at TACTICA this year and for that, they required some new miniatures. So, ...

Russia’s recent efforts to destabilise the Baltic states have increased enthusiasm for the EU in these places. With Euroscepticism growing in countries like France and Germany, @owenmatth wonders ...

The 35th Battalion was formed in December 1915 in Newcastle, New South Wales. The bulk of the battalion's recruits were drawn from the Newcastle region and thus it was dubbed "Newcastle's Own".

Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from ...

Firefighters work to control a fire in Odesa, Ukraine, after a Russian drone attack damaged energy infrastructure, triggering power cuts in the city and knocking out heating systems [Handout ...

Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef. So traumatised are the survivors that some say they have ...

The wooden stakes were discovered in the moat of Sheffield's former castle The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the ...

The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences to be found in the UK have been discovered by archaeologists in the moat of Sheffield's former castle. The stakes were stuck into the ground to ...

This summit will reportedly discuss support for Ukraine. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says it is assessing size of Pyongyang’s deployment to the war in Ukraine.

Plans to redevelop a block of buildings on Oxford Street might uncover remains from a huge fortification wall built around London to protect it during the English Civil War. The building, an office ...