The dual-careers of Peter Paul Rubens, working as both a court painter and a highly respected European diplomat, won him ...

Previously known as Formosa, the island has been home to indigenous people for thousands of years, before the Dutch and Spanish briefly ruled parts of it in the 1600s. The Qing dynasty ...

The story so far: The first contingent of 59 Afrikaner refugees arrived from in the United States on May 12, under a new ...

In 1579, the Union of Utrecht was signed in the city to lay the foundations for the Dutch Republic. Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age when it was ...

Homer Simpson, despite his many flaws, wants to do right by his family and—with the possible exception of his do-gooder neighbor Ned Flanders—his community. In this sense, he has little in ...

Carlo Versano is a Newsweek politics editor based in New York. He has in-depth knowledge and experience covering a range of topics and stories over a 20-year career in the news business. Carlo ...

Remember “a thousand points of light”? Accepting the Republican nomination for president in 1988, George H. W. Bush celebrated what he described as a bright constellation of charitable ...

Health officials say measles has infected 182 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province's case count to 1,622 since an outbreak began in October. Public Health Ontario's ...

Game-to-movie adaptations are proving so popular at the moment that Ubisoft even feels justified in turning its extreme sports title Riders Republic into one. The project was confirmed as part of ...

Jonathan Rea returned to action after injury at the Italian World Superbike round in May Northern Ireland's Jonathan Rea finished 10th in the first World Superbike race of the weekend at the Most ...

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation cabinet members and school board members turn shovels of dirt during a ceremony to mark the start of renovations to ...

Arrighi identified four such global hegemons—the alliance between Genoese capital and the Iberian states in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Dutch republic in the 17th and 18th centuries ...