Mystery bags have become increasingly popular in recent years. They often allow customers to get a great deal on different items – and they also get the satisfaction of being surprised when they ...

Less well remembered are the failures. In 1898, when a German archaeologist named Robert Koldewey arrived in Babylon, he was keen to emulate Schliemann and secure further funding for his excavations ...

Picture: Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP. In February, when a second outbreak of the current mystery disease began in the town of Bomate, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for ...

The award-winning Irish novelist and playwright Jennifer Johnston, known for her novel How Many Miles to Babylon?, has died aged 95. The celebrated author, who wrote dozens of novels and plays ...

A child of the playwright Denis Johnston and actor and producer Shelah Richards, her first novel, The Captains and the Kings, was published in 1972 and How Many Miles to Babylon? two years later.

Mrs Hobrough, who became known as Charlotte the Harlot, admitted she had won thanks to a combination of being 'wonderfully nice and wonderfully awful'. 'You've got to be slightly devious and plot ...

After the second outbreak of the mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on Feb. 9, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital ...

Gun enthusiasts are questioning a new law banning the sale of firearms and ammunition in Babylon Village, saying the law is not needed to improve safety, despite village officials' claims.

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief For fans of Babylon Berlin, the wait is (almost) over. The show’s fifth and final season is set to finish shooting later this year, and co-creators Tom ...

The body was discovered at approximately 12:30 p.m. inside the enclosure on the south side of Suffolk Avenue, near Carleton Avenue, police said. Investigators have not determined how the man died. The ...