Heavy rains from Storm Boris have caused widespread flooding across several countries, with the Czech Republic declaring the ...

Sarah Gristwood’s sweeping survey of the careers of numerous royal women in 16th-century Europe amply justifies the nod to Game of Thrones in the title: it features enough dynastic conflict, violence ...

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it ...

Sixteen people have died in severe flooding that has hit several countries in Central and Eastern Europe after heavy rainfall caused by Storm Boris forced several evacuations and caused widespread ...

Just four hours from UK airports, the island of Cyprus is home to some of the most beautiful European villages and enjoys ...

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's former Central Bank governor who stepped down last year, has become the first high-ranking official ...

Researchers have identified traces of cocaine in the brain tissue of two people buried in Italy in the 1600s. The discovery ...

Between around 1530 and 1650 a witch-hunt frenzy gripped the European continent ... accounts that flew off the printing presses of 16th-century Europe are all too clear. Today, the hunt has ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a "revenant" grave where a man was buried with large stones on his chest to prevent ...

Open-source technologies power key industries. The next frontier? Semiconductors, where RISC-V, an open-source chip ...

This briefing analyses the current situation of women's rights in Afghanistan, taking a long view. Women's rights have been an intense battleground between different actors for over a century, with ...