OnAugust 14, 1941,U.S.PresidentFranklin Rooseveltand British Prime MinisterWinston Churchillsecretly met aboard a ship off theNewfoundlandcoast. The…

OnJanuary 22, 2009, his second full day in office,U.S.PresidentBarack Obamasigned an executive order prohibitingthe use of torture by theU.S…

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Mayar Sherif made history in September by becoming the first-ever Egyptian female tennis player to reach the main draw of a…

Among the many sobering projections of harm to be caused by climate change is this eye-popping statistic: on average, according to economists, a rise…

Sri Lanka'sdecades-long civil war ended in a bloodbath inMay 2009. Government forces decisively defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the…

Japanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abestepped down this month as the country's longest-serving premier, having surpassed the record set by his great…

The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every nation in the world, with results as variable as each government's response. While some…

The ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, marking the end of an era, in which he was one of the last…

While in much of Europe the atmosphere is becoming markedly more anxious, with cases on the rise and new restrictions coming in several countries as…