The need for secret communications arose very early in civilization. It progressed due to the “intellectual arms race” ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 ...

The late Queen Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in 1926, ruled for longer than any other monarch in British history. During her 70-year reign, the late Queen was much loved and ...

Busà Photography / Getty Images Many people believe that being wealthy means having a nice house, a late-model car, and a summer cottage, but the kind of money possessed by the wealthiest 1% of ...

According to the British royal family's website, a “Royal Warrant of Appointment" is a seal of approval given by senior ...

She was preserved under a beautiful ceremonial mask of malachite and covered with jade, bone and sea shells — this is how more than a decade ago, a group of archaeologists found the tomb of an ...

The Minister-Designate for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare has highlighted how President John Dramani Mahama’s 24-hour economy policy will address the challenges ...

Body Dimensions 137.6 x 65.7 x 9.8 mm (5.42 x 2.59 x 0.39 in) ...

The exotic title bestowed on Queen Victoria was part of Prime minister Disraeli’s plans for Victoria to become a symbol of British power, both at home and across the world. Disraeli announced that ...

The head of the Vancouver Public Library is defending a policy that dictates what symbols its roughly 800 staff can wear while at work, amid concerns from employees that the rules unfairly single ...

As Princess Elizabeth, the late Queen was herself the very first female royal to join the army as a full-time, active member: she signed up to the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, during World ...

Warning: This story contains an image of a Nazi symbol. One life event Keys ranks ... with stardom after making it big Belize removes Queen Elizabeth’s image on banknotes as ‘step in ...