Thanks to the 1902 treaty with England, Tokyo had a free hand to attack in Asia, where it was already becoming the alter ego ...

Brookfield, 98, and a longtime resident of Whittier, was born in Chemnitz, Germany, the only child of Willy and Dora Fleischmann. She was 11 in 1936 when she remembers other children in her school ...

Bangkok is a city of the world, but is it a world city?The answer is an enthusiastic though qualified yes, judging from the results of a spirited discussion between long-term foreign residents, ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

Lithuania’s then-Culture Minister Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s classic ...

Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’ ...

No one who has lived in Britain would contest that Oxfam (and Save the Children, War on Want, Live Aid and the other ...

Dr Mandeep Singh Azad When one thinks of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, two figures most ...