For the third year in a row, the French bulldog is the most popular dog breed in the United States, as ranked by the American Kennel Club. My family has a ...

Either way, the Council of Nicaea — whose 1,700th anniversary we celebrate this year — remains deeply relevant to the ...

Once, while working in a primary school, and trying to impress upon a group of 11-/12-year-olds the merits of brevity in creative writing, one ...

The Russian tsar, Nicholas I, thought that an attack against Kars and Erzurum ... Meanwhile the soldiers and diplomatists were working better than they knew. They set out to repel Russia and to save ...

Since 2020, a new generation of situational comedies has emerged, redefining the boundaries of the beloved television genre.

Imagine a board meeting so momentous that its minutes would be remembered a millennium later. That meeting took place ...

Queen Mary of Teck, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, was a reserved intellectual. But some historians and descendants argue she was also an "upmarket kleptomaniac".

Part period drama, part psychological thriller, director Pablo Larraín’s suspenseful and atmospheric film focuses on arguably ...

This is a story of how, a century and a quarter ago in Japan, a remarkable Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent called Lafcadio Hearn pulled off a ...

From the Mongols to the Tsars, Russia has been a significant player on the world's stage and Russian palaces and forts are a ...

President Trump issued a flurry of clemency actions on Wednesday, according to a White House official familiar with the ...