With multiple records broken amid a dynamic energy on the auction floor, Christie’s Hong Kong Autumn Luxury Sales demonstrated robust market confidence. Check out our stories from Art & Culture, ...

Recurring high-energy flood events are not the exception but the rule in the Ahr Valley in western Germany – and this occurs over periods of centuries to millennia. This is shown in a study recently ...

There’s a new journey that largely traces the fabled Paris-to-Istanbul Orient Express route, but without the exorbitant cost.

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The Englightenment is celebrated in the West as an age of progress. It was also an age that cemented some of the worst human traits ...

Fiona is unmasked as a Traitor after tense round table showdown with Rachel - Feuding players Rachel and Fiona had stern ...

It’s that time of year again: trees losing leaves as the nights grow longer and chillier, the holidays lying sleepily just around the corner as the seductively-sweet scent of pumpkin spice fills the ...

An interdisciplinary research team from Leipzig has discovered strong evidence of a Black Death mass grave near the deserted medieval village of Neuses, outside Erfurt (Germany). It represents the ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the ...

The church’s many chambers and crypts hold the story of Britain’s past, present and future By Peter Ross Photographs by Jooney Woodward “It could take you a lifetime, or several lifetimes, to learn ...