Under Rome, Puglia flourished as a grain-producing region, with cities like Bari and Lecce thriving. After the Western Roman ...

This was not the first time Montenegro had been its own country. It was the first nation to emerge out of the slowly crumbling Ottoman Empire in the 1700’s. After World War I, it was annexed by Serbia ...

Behind the golden walls of the imperial harem, the real power of the Ottoman Empire often rested with its women. In this ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Britain’s Princess Anne has joined a dawn ceremony near the World War I battlefields on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula to ...

The emergence of Timur, often known as Tamerlane, represented the last major nomadic empire that stretched across much of ...

Almost 60 years later, he hasn’t changed a bit. Appearing at a 45th anniversary screening of “The Empire Strikes Back” on the opening night of the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, Lucas ...

LOS ANGELES -- "I am your father." Those four words from Darth Vader are the most well-known in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and possibly the entire galaxy! "The Empire Strikes Back" turns ...

Anguished cop Walker (Tom Hardy) must find the son of politician Beaumont (Forest Whitaker) while atoning for his past amid the violent underbelly of his city. There’s a vitalness to Gareth ...

EG Group co-founder Mohsin Issa is stepping down as chief executive officer of the gas station empire he set up with his brother in Blackburn, England almost 25 years ago. Chief Financial Officer ...