Could the Mongols have taken Europe? The Mongols were certainly world-class conquerors. In the thirteenth century, they ruled the largest contiguous land empire in history. It is commonplace to hear ...

Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

1° The magnificent example of an immediate, total, and unconditional disarmament given to the world in 1917 by LENIN at Brest-Litovsk—a disarmament whose revolutionary value is infinite—we do not ...

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the ...

The flame-red Eierland lighthouse at the northern tip of Texel is the Dutch island’s most prominent landmark. On a dark night its light can be seen from Leeuwarden, 60 kilometres to the east, while by ...

Among Europe’s top five economies, Germany has the highest personal average tax rate at 37.4%. Italy follows with 30.4%, which is 7 percentage points lower. France sits in the middle at 28%.

Germany's newly elected chancellor, Friedrich Merz, called for Berlin to transform its Bundeswehr into the "strongest conventional army in Europe" in his first major speech to parliament.

Long portraying itself as the world’s climate leader, Europe is facing a fierce backlash against one of its key steps to reduce planet-warming emissions. Only four years ago, this continent bet ...

In 2024, real wage growth was strongest in Eastern Europe. Among the 32 European countries, it declined in only four. Annual gross wages increased in nominal terms in nearly all 32 European ...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has opened a new subsidiary company office in Paris to deepen its business ties with Europe. The office will drive the sovereign fund to engage closely with ...