The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...

Donald Trump says he and Vladimir Putin will discuss "dividing up certain assets" in Ukraine as part of peace talks that will ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Andrii Hnatov as the new chief of the general staff of Ukraine’s military, ...

A Romanian lawyer linked to a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with a Russian military attaché in Bucharest to ...

The Russian author’s Nobel Prize lecture contains an urgent message for contemporary audiences. Get our guide to the day’s biggest news and ideas, delivered to your inbox every weekday and Sunday ...

“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...

The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals of Alexander the Great.

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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes full responsibility for his administration's "war on drugs", in a ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

Dominic Alexander continues his series on revolutionary change in history by looking at the founding of Russian socialism ...

1865: Confederate president Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorising the use of slaves as soldiers in the American Civil War. 1868: The Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.