On the occasion of the conclave, the Chinese Catholic website has retraced the historical origins of the term jiaohuang, used to refer to the Pope. It was first introduced by the great missionary ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

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In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

According to Professor Kemp, these are the words that have the most appearances in the dictionary of the Irish language. They might appear in the definition of that word, or in definitions of ...

A cage fighter behind Britain’s biggest armed robbery was the target of a “Hollywood blockbuster” murder plot, a police chief has said. Paul Allen, then 41, was paralysed for life after ...

The court also heard that the three men snatched Ming dynasty antiques worth more than $3.5 million from a Swiss museum shortly before the murder plot. Jurors heard agreed facts about the ...

The court also heard that the three men snatched Ming dynasty antiques worth more than 3.5 million US dollars (£2.78 million) from a Swiss museum shortly before the murder plot. Jurors heard ...

A month before that, the trio had stolen more than $3.5m (£2.78m) worth of Ming dynasty antiques from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva, for which the Ahearne brothers had been jailed in ...

A month before the shooting, the Ahearne brothers and Kelly stole Chinese Ming Dynasty artefacts worth more than $3.5 million (£2.78m) burgled from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva.

Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers. As recorded in the ancient text Han Shu (book of Han), these ...