Austria-Hungary entered World War I as a great power — and ended it in ruins. This episode explains why: ethnic divisions, ...

How early blunders in Serbia and Galicia set the stage for a grinding, resource-draining war the Empire couldn’t win.

As this column, the last in the series is published, we will be approaching Armistice Day. November 11, 1918, was when the warring parties agreed that hostilities would cease at 11:11 a.m. in Central ...

Today, only around 40 monarchies remain. Of these, just about 10 to 12, mostly in the Middle East and North Africa, still have ruling power. The rest are ceremonial, their crowns polished by tradition ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on November 3. Check what happened ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

Private Thomas James is believed to be the bandsman depicted in an 'exceptionally rare' painting from 1821, by respected ...

Today, countries are unwilling to extradite their leaders to international courts and many prefer to settle the scores on ...

The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, has exported around 7,000 units of the e Vitara electric SUV so far. The ...

The fortress mentality, as Achille Mbembe states in his work on necropolitics, is not just defensive; it builds new ways to control. Borders grow inside and outside the nation. They decide who enters ...

When it comes to studying or living abroad, a majority of Kenyans think of the US, the UK, or maybe Canada. But few ever picture Slovakia as a small, landlocked country in Central Europe with just ...

MTV, once the defining force of global pop culture, is entering another dramatic phase of reinvention. Headlines about the ...