A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a version from the 1970s that was reviled by many traditionalists. By ...

MUMBAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Authorities clamped indefinite curfew on parts of the Indian city of Nagpur after more than a dozen police officers were hurt in clashes sparked by a Hindu group's ...

On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment. By Nick Haramis A DECADE OR so ago, Nicholas Ward-Jackson woke up one morning ...

will drastically redraw the road and rail maps of Europe. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel may not have grabbed the popular imagination in the same way as the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France did ...

A 17th Century Edinburgh tavern is being revived - with a little help of its signature drink of old, the Cauld Cock and Feather. John’s Coffee Shop and Tavern, founded in Parliament Close in ...

A four-year project to restore a 17th Century building in Guildford is now complete. The Grade I-listed Guildford House, on the High Street, was built in 1660 for John Childe, a lawyer who went on ...

A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis from the home of a Jewish Belgian art collector is being returned to his family by Tate Britain. The government’s Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended the ...

Ambitious blueprints to transform Europe's railway by building a mega Metro line have been unveiled. Copenhagen-based 21st Europe has slammed the continent's 'fragmented, uneven and often slow ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European settlement in the early 1600s ...