A slowing mortgage market is forcing the big banks to choose between protecting margins and paying up to defend market share.

A fast visual walkthrough of the fall of Constantinople, using Google Earth to show key locations, troop movements, and how the city was finally breached in 1453.

Because it’s not like Illinois has had much going for it over the past several years, specifically Chicago — which in political terms is just a different way of saying the same thing. (This ...

The Tower of the Winds in Athens is the world's oldest meteorological station and one of the most important ancient monuments ...

The Shortest History Of Egypt' by Maria Golia is an exhilarating portrait of Egypt, which portrays survival and adaptation ...

Doha:Qatar University (QU) announced the admission of more than 6,000 female and male students to the University s Bachelor s ...

Qatar University (QU) has announced the admission of more than 6,000 female and male students to the university's Bachelor's ...

T he massive (if largely temporary) incursion of about 70,000 illegal migrants out of Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish city of 80,000 people on the North African coast, has set off a debate that, to say ...

Constantinople served as the monumental capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, standing at the strategic crossroads of Europe and Asia. Established by Emperor Constantine in 330 CE on the site of ...

The waters off the coast of Mljet, a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, are home to more than two dozen sunken ships spanning nearly 2,500 years. But one stands out as “the most important shipwreck ...

Howard University is addressing the decision to unenroll hundreds of incoming freshmen shortly before the fall semester begins.

Gold jewellery found on board a wrecked Byzantine-era ship shows that one of the people on board was likely a high-ranking person, archaeologists say. The ship was discovered more than a decade ago ...