Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, who defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico, dies of pleurisy. 1697: ...

Known to travel in groups or pods, killer whales can sabotage their victims by encircling them en masse before they attack ...

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor ...

A small plane carrying six people has crashed southeast of Costa Rica’s capital, but the condition of those aboard was not immediately known. The Central American country’s civil aviation authorities ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings ...

You'll find Irish backgrounds in many parts of Mexican life, from the Wexfordman who inspired Zorro to the artist Juan ...

This requires that we develop and sustain a culture of compassion throughout health care organizations. But this doesn’t only fall to individual health care professionals; it is the job of health care ...

The chilling noise is described as the 'scariest sound in the world', and is somewhere between a spooky gust of whistling ...

As per reports from Iranian media houses, the incumbent Supreme Leader of Iran ... claimed that Ali Khamenei controlled a financial empire worth a staggering USD 95 billion in the oil-rich ...

We’ve played countless hours with leaders from Abraham Lincoln to Wu Zetian ... Huang (China), Queen Mbande Nzinga (Kongo), Ramses (Egypt), Shaka (Zulu), Suleiman (Ottomans) Suleiman the Magnificent ...

The election of Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as the next leader of his party in the chamber – putting him on track to become Senate majority leader next year – tasks a key ally ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into a ...