A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...