It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which to destroy one’s enemies. If used effectively, a weaponised virus could ...

Many countries have experienced baby booms after wars. Israel may be among the first to experience a baby boom during an ...

What are war crimes and when did they start ... Romans in ancient times between 600 and 30 B.C. No laws limited the Mongol invasions of Europe in the 13th century or the European colonial ...

For example during the 1980s the United States supplied the Afghan rebels fighting the Russian invaders with some 700 mules as these were the most efficient mode of transport for those, like the ...

The victors no longer exist in the land.

As a cinema audience we have been so overloaded with action films over the years that is rare these days that we sit in a ...

Over the centuries, the global order has shifted at regular intervals. With the rise of Third World powers, the post-Cold War ...

One of the characters is based on Yasuke, a formerly enslaved black man from Mozambique, who worked for the Japanese war lord ...

The submarine’s massive size and quiet operation—owing to advanced sound-dampening technologies—made it a formidable ghost in ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the Great ...