A national TV documentary following the renovation of a 900-year-old castle over the past eight years will help mark its full ...

Wolf Man producer Bea Sequeira details how the monster movie, like many Blumhouse films, is the perfect combination of scary ...

The historic centre of Wismar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and other architectural attractions in the area include ...

According to a French army official, several Ukrainian soldiers have abandoned their posts while undergoing training in France. The report from AFP states that members of the 155th Mechanized Brigade, ...

Dzhamilya Timaeva faces prison after being convicted of possessing footage encouraging viewers to carry out arson attacks ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert war against Ukraine since 2014, which he had turned into a full-scale ...

The leader of Azerbaijan criticized the Russian response to the crash of a passenger jet that Azerbaijani officials said had most likely been hit by Russian air defenses. By Anatoly Kurmanaev ...

Vogue’s list of 2024’s best documentaries has grown more ambitious ... s yearslong digital life as Ibelin Redwood, his handsome, medieval avatar, using gaming archives, internet chat rooms ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next year as the neighbours seek to put up a “double resistance” to pressure from the US-led West, Igor Morgulov the Russian ambassador to China ...

When Russian forces occupied Kherson in the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Moscow troops soon started targeting Ukrainian children. Tetyana Bodak from Kherson is raising eight ...

After a surprise offensive earlier this year, Ukraine’s forces have lost about half the territory seized in Russia’s Kursk region and may lose the rest in a matter of months, according to US ...