2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (851+ words) September 11, 2026 marks 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 when terrorists hijacked multiple commercial airplanes, flying them into the World Trade Center in Manhattan and the Pentagon in Washington. Another airplane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks resulted in…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (921+ words) Wednesday, September 9, marked 50 years since the death of Mao Zedong, the Chinese revolutionary leader whose long shadow is still cast over Asian and world geopolitics. For almost three decades after proclaiming the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (393+ words) The United Nations on Friday voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map toward one that more accurately reflects countries' true sizes, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter perceptions that the continent is peripheral. Togo led…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (433+ words) The Egyptian Museum in Cairo completed restoration work on a stele of Ramesses II, Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry announced in a statement last month. Ramesses II, known also as Ramesses the Great, is believed by many to have been…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) The NIS 2 million safety and preservation project is funded by the Israel Land Authority (ILA) through its Fund for the Protection of Open Areas, with execution managed by the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority. As part of the initiative, crews…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (410+ words) Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected on Thursday the open sarcophagus of medieval Russian warrior prince Dmitry Donskoy, whose remains were recently uncovered during restoration work at Moscow's Cathedral of the Archangel. Lying within the Kremlin fortress, the Orthodox cathedral served…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (907+ words) Shortly after the destruction of the First Temple, in the Greek city of Athens around the year 500 BCE, the process of democratic voting began. Soon after, other Greek city-states followed suit. Voting was not open to all. It was a…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (634+ words) Hopes of finding survivors of the earthquake that struck western Colombia five days ago were dwindling on Saturday, as more bodies were pulled from buildings that collapsed due to the 7.4-magnitude quake that left hundreds dead or missing. The earthquake…...