Under the direction of Portuguese missionaries, large quantities of ivory sourced from their East African colonies came to be used to carve ecclesiastical statuettes by indigenous artisans.

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Recap the NORAD Santa tracker 2024 as Father Christmas embarks on his traditional whistlestop tour to deliver presents to children across the globe.

Gideon Rachman talks to Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations and Karin von Hippel of the Royal United Services Institute ...

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The cost-of-living crisis couldn’t keep Gold Coast hospitality operators down, with a host of new openings in 2024.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

Even when it was most used in the 1910s and 1920s, America's passenger train network displayed stark differences between ...

The European Union is drafting a package of measures to support flagging industries, due early next year, as manufacturing giants from automakers to steel firms warn of plant closures and ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.