This Italian island is so disturbing that tourists are actually banned from visiting it. And as it's known as the 'Island of ...

A man has been stabbed in the head with a sword during a battle re-enactment at a 14th-century castle. The 37-year-old was ...

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

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It comes as little surprise that the dream of many a warlord or government has been to harness disease as a weapon with which to destroy one’s enemies. If used effectively, a weaponised virus could ...

We love to dress as our favorite scary creatures for Halloween. But where did these Halloween monsters come from, anyway?

In a county not blessed with ancient trees, this penduculate oak (quercus robur) is in an age group all by itself. Believed ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Drs Chris and Xand dig further into the science of hair loss with Dr Christos Tziotzios, as they discover a surprising link between hair loss and the Black Death.

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Each year the six wells in this Derbyshire Dales village are decorated as part of a tradition rooted in medieval ...

If you walked north down George Street, Sydney, into the Rocks in the 1890s and turned left up Argyle Street, you would pass ...