Once more, scientific innovation was at the scene of the crime: the British engineer Barnes Wallis helped develop “earthquake ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Under the cover of darkness, Nomali jumped over a wall, burst into a museum and snatched a human skull from a pedestal before ...

In the early 20th century, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s German Empire devised ambitious plans to invade the United States, driven by the desire to challenge America's Monroe Doctrine - which asserted U.S.

To boost tourism in the border region of Punjab, the Army’s Golden Arrow Division on Sunday opened to the public the centuries-old Fort, a monument that was occupied for long by the British and was ...

Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century ...

Germany’s colonial empire, which lasted from 1884 to 1919 shaped global inequalities. German colonies saw forced labor, rebellions, and genocide. In this video series, high school students from ...

In his play Vielleicht, French-Ivorian director Cédric Djedje lays bare Germany's colonial past, through the story of the 40-year struggle of Afro-descendants to change the names of three streets ...

The Holocaust has overshadowed earlier German crimes against humanity of the colonial era. After the second world war (1939-1945), German colonialism became a footnote in history.

Between 1905 and 1907, the German empire used Shark Island as a "concentration camp", said The Guardian. A non-profit research agency believes it has located sites of unmarked graves of prisoners ...

Analysis - By 1885, Adolf Lüderitz had acquired vast territories in today's Namibia. But his contracts with local people were so dodgy that even German colonial officials doubted them.