A University of Galway academic has been appointed to a major UN role in a historic moment for Ireland this week. Charles Spillane has been appointed Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture ...

We like to think we're more civilized than our ancestors. The recent murder of at least 15 people celebrating Hanukkah on ...

Today in History for Dec. 19: In 1813, fur trader James McGill died in Montreal, leaving 10,000 pounds to establish the university that would bear his name.

The people who make the loudest claim to be American patriots are less attracted to their own story than to the blood-and-soil nationalism of European autocrats.

OP-ED. The attack carried out on December 14 on Bondi Beach in Sydney has caused even greater shock because it remains an ...

Recently, president Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed the former Chief of Defence Staff, Retired General Christopher Musa as ...

In the summer of 1977, while most people were listening to disco and trying to figure out Star Wars, NASA launched two small spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were simple-looking robots ...

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N.

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts ...

He spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to ...

The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the ...