In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

Cats are theorized to be older than dogs, with their family tree branching off nearly 2.5 million years before canines. They ...

World leaders send condolences after Pope's death A former aide to Pope Francis who served as his "Arabic voice" during a historic visit to the UAE has told of his privilege at being able to help ...

For her final film performance, Aaliyah takes centerstage in Queen of the Damned, a standalone film adapted from Anne Rice’s 1988 Interview with the Vampire sequel. Aaliyah plays Akasha, a former ...

Use of colours in pre-historic era Humans have been long fascinated by colour, which has played a significant role since the ...

A Philip Seymour Hoffman series, Joe Wright's 'Pride & Prejudice' at 20, 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii' and the classic conversation ...

From the Bermuda Triangle to Antarctica's Blood Falls, we look at mysterious sites and stories from around the world.

25:7-10 - the penalty for refusing to keep up a family lineage is not death, like Onan received ... "They [certain Egyptian heretics] exercise genital acts, yet prevent the conceiving of children.

They also called for an urgent investigation into the circumstances of the event, which has been described as the field execution of “an innocent creature.” A veterinary campaign had gone to the ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Subsequently, the dog was caught after residents attempted to beat it and tied it to lampposts before the veterinary procedure of injecting the dog with a substance that caused its death was carried ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...