Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in ...

Surinam Airways is the flag carrier of the South American nation of Suriname (although it is culturally associated with the ...

Riyadh: Both Saudi Arabia and Turkey are influential Muslim countries in the Arab world. While Saudi Arabia leads Muslim ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] He organized a quiz for the ... by the city's inhabitants following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. "Though I'm walking through today's Yangzhou, I'm imagining ...

Auschwitz survivors were centre stage at this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January with added poignancy as time and age is fast diminishing their ranks. When they are all gone, who will have ...

From learning how to confidently choose between ‘tu’ and ‘Lei’ to visiting lesser known UNESCO World Heritage sites, our ...

The UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of ...