Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

The late Aussie restaurateur Tony Lo taught his son Buddha Lo — the winner of Season 19 of Top Chef — how to braise and glaze pork belly in a sweet and savory sauce laced with warm notes of ...

On the splendid Albanian Riviera, the seaside resort of Borsh has a rich history, an endless beach and breathtaking views. Discover it for yourself!

Did you know that Dracula was real? Even more amazing, his tomb was never found despite his death hundreds of years ago.

Aurangzeb's tomb is located in Khuldabad, a town near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Unlike the grand mausoleums of other Mughal emperors, Aurangzeb's tomb is a simple structure, reflecting his wishes to ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, an Armenian-American lawyer whose great-grandfather served as an officer and chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, has obtained Turkish citizenship, adopting the name "Murat." ...

Today’s government hopes its own such plan will succeed. By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address ...

Addressing the French Senate, Claude Malhuret, leader of France’s centre-right party, called Donald Trump a “dictator”, and compared him to Nero, the infamous brutal emperor of ancient Rome.

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

Either you convert to Islam, or you are beheaded – this was the policy of the most atrocious Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb. He, who came to the throne after imprisoning his father and having his ...

French Senator Claude Malhuret took aim at both Elon Musk and Donald Trump in a blistering speech, calling Musk a "ketamine jester" and Trump an "incendiary emperor." He accused Musk of betraying ...