On this day in 1956, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Santorini, the largest to ever be recorded in Europe in the ...

But after a flurry of concern, Europe’s major powers rolled over and went back to sleep. Moscow’s full-scale invasion of the ...

Tagore, a name not only associated with literature, but rather a name linked with arts, culture, music, philosophy, and many ...

A new book explores what the wolf’s return to the continent means for people who have never known its presence.

Across much of Europe, the engines of economic growth are sputtering. In its latest global outlook, the International ...

In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

Approximately one-half of Americans alive today were born after the Cold War ended. Most of the rest, including baby boomers like me, were born after World War II. We have never lived in an age when ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

As the area transformed and other garment stores moved away, H. Fisher & Fils remained, operated until 2022 by Esther Fisher, ...

Conflicts over land and territory will likely proliferate as the accelerating climate crisis collides with rising ...