New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

What’s more important than a mere assessment of what is in store for Sri Lanka this year, would be a sizing up of what is in store for the ...

The military government of Myanmar released 5,864 prisoners on Saturday. The mass amnesty was to commemorate the 77th ...

Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...

What happened to Africa over the years can be analysed through the interlocking power struggles between various caste-like ...

The colorful wall paintings adorn Boston's Old North Church, which played a crucial role during Paul Revere's famed 1775 midnight ride ...

Tipu Sultan, often hailed as a secular nationalist, was neither. Historical evidence reveals a ruler driven by religious zeal ...

Now John Tiffany, the magician director of the Harry Potter plays, aims to sprinkle the star-making dust over the stage ...

The city, and its adjoining villages like Sansarpur & Mithapur have produced scores of Olympians, a result of colonial legacy ...

Local historians have long proclaimed that the American Revolution began in New Castle, NH rather than on the battlefields of ...

For centuries, even before the British arrived in India, Delhi was the centre of power in the region. From the Tomars, who were the first rulers of Delhi, and the Chauhans to the Sultans and the ...

Sani made the appeal on Monday while speaking to newsmen during his visit to the tombs of six deposed Emirs in Lokoja, who ...