This is the story of Onfim, a little boy from medieval Russia whose doodles we have perfectly preserved on tree bark, right ...

The Brooklyn Nets had five first-round picks in the NBA draft and they went around the globe to find the players for them.

Russian forces have advanced along parts of the frontline in Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), as a map by Newsweek shows the latest developments in Moscow's summer ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...

Russia and Ukraine have swapped hundreds more prisoners of war, the third and last part of a major swap, hours after a massive attack by Moscow, killing at least 12.

Russia hits Ukraine with the largest drone-and-missile attack of the war so far ... Updated: 12:31 PM EDT May 25, 2025 Editorial Standards ⓘ By Samya Kullab and Oleksii Yeroshenko, Associated Press ...

“Not all of them have the same stamps, so it’s sort of like piecing together a mystery,” Quill says. This is a 1937 map of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia.

For more than a decade since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan ...

A Cotswold town has officially twinned with a German one, both linked by a saint who lived 1,300 years ago. The Mayor of Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, signed the formal agreement with Bad Hersfeld on ...

Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1999 in the first six months of this year, according to official data published on Monday, with births in June below 100,000, marking their first ...