A rare piece of artwork had been hanging in an Upper East Side apartment for 40 years - but the owner only recently ...

A rare drawing dating to 1777 was found hanging in a New York City apartment, and could end up being the oldest known ...

In a single day, at least 120 people were killed in Ecuador’s deadliest prison battle. One inmate witnessed the gang fighting ...

This fairly pitiful scene made an interesting accompaniment to the country’s biggest movie at the moment, Alex Garland’s ...

The record figure confirmed by Harm Reduction International is still an undercount, as governments seek to project power and ...

The art gallery on Santa Fe Drive teemed with people on a December night, part of the district’s signature First Friday art ...

The U.S. code does not say that “public hanging” is a punishment for treason ... owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them ...

I saw it. This is how Francisco de Goya inscribed the 44th plate of The Disasters of War, adding on-the-spot immediacy to a ...

The surge in executions comes as Iran continues what Amnesty calls a “war on drugs.” In 2023, more than half — 481 — of the total executions were for drug-related offenses. The mass ...

Matthew Skic, a curator at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, has located the first portrayal of the Revolutionary War’s North Carolina Brigade in a private collection.

Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty ...