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In Croatia, in the heart of Split, the Cathedral of Saint Domnius is the oldest Catholic cathedral still in use. An architectural gem with an astonishing past, just waiting to be discovered!

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Cesar Galan belonged to a violent Los Angeles street gang. Then a shooting changed the way he saw the world and led him to ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

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The current theory of how the Universe came into being can't explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies we see ...

From rare snaps of the British and Russian royals on holiday together in the late 1800s, to Princess Grace checking up on ...

UK-based news outlet The Independent has unveiled eight of Vietnam’s top holiday destinations, highlighting their charm, ...

Imagine that 30, 40, 50 years later this kind of singing would come to signify defiance, become known as a postcolonial music, a tactic of imperial refusal ... contracting from the space of a resonant ...