A 79-year-old school accountant has gone on trial in Egypt over accusations of raping a young child on campus, in a case that has triggered widespread public outrage and a viral social media campaign.

Creating the Grand Egyptian Museum has become a seemingly Sisyphean task, with years of delays suggesting it would be ...

In late February last year, gangs launched an offensive on Port-au-Prince, seizing control of 80% of the country and worsening the already critical security situation. (Illustration photo) (Photo ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Conservationist Peter Seligmann; writer, actor and director Ramy Youssef and acclaimed visual artist Mickalene Thomas will ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Alliances among the nine Supreme Court justices can shift back and forth, as in recent cases over President Donald Trump’s ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...

The temple serves as the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania — there are about 70,000 Masons statewide — ...