The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged vessel holding the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union greatly affected this decades-old gas business. Russian gas now had to transit an ...

The Virtues and Vices of Our Time sculptures by Matyáš Chochola, currently exhibited at the EPO1 Contemporary Art Center in ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Nick Taylor of Canada delivered another theatrical finish Sunday, this time chipping in for eagle on the 18th hole to get into a playoff at the Sony Open in Hawaii and winning ...

Russian defence ministry on January 27, released footage showing arrival of a Russia's fourth generation nuclear-powered ...

Touted as the next heir to the cultural capitals of Russia alongside Moscow and St Petersburg is Perm, where a cultural revival highlighting edgy contemporary art is taking place. The new avant garde ...

The 18th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. It left Australia in early May, trained in Egypt from mid-June until mid-August, and on 22 ...

Russia's population could shrink by half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The Russia-Ukraine war has accelerated the population decline. A shrinking population threatens ...

Sergey Vakulenko, senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Centre, said the cost of rebuilding is "probably in the vicinity of tens of millions of dollars per plant". A map created by Newsweek has ...

Afghanistan served as a buffer zone during the 19th-century tussle between Czarist Russia and imperial Britain. During the Cold War, Afghanistan was at the centre of a rivalry between the US and USSR.