How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

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A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

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Keiran King, head of humanitarian at War Child, gives the Big Issue a rare on-the-ground insight amid war in Sudan.

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After more than 80 years, Army veteran Willibald Bianchi was properly identified using advanced forensic science. Next May, ...

The partially completed Catholic Church, poised as the fort to be used in defense of the futilely attempted Confederate ...

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of bumper Emirati paychecks. What many found ...

Yet the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has a spring in his step these days. He seems confident this extraordinary election, ...