In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

The Mahmoud Khalil affair calls to mind the anti-democratic excesses of the 18th century that Voltaire abhorred.

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...

Jews living in York are besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather ...

He often had to intervene in quarrels between the powerful faculty of medicine in Paris and his own doctors. After the death of Louis XIV, the three subsequent chief royal surgeons – Mareschal, ...

Household knives varied in pattern over the centuries. Until towards the end of the 17th century, cutlery for dining was limited to a knife and a spoon and everyone carried their own with them. All ...

Throughout Europe, frozen fish floated in the water, deer lay dead in the meadows, livestock froze to death in the stables ... and they were sought out in foreign countries. Louis XIV melted down his ...

Louis Tomlinson will never be able to reunite with One Direction after the death of former bandmate Liam Payne. The ex-pop star, 33, is said to 'despair' at rumours that the surviving members ...

The mother of a 10-year-old girl from Milton, Massachusetts is desperate for answers three weeks after her sudden death. "I'm her mother and I'm her advocate," Shirley Pierre-Louis told WBZ-TV.

Her fears became reality hours later. Her son was found shot to death in an alley near the 1700 block of Gay Avenue in East St. Louis, police said. "I knew something was off once he didn't come ...

ST. LOUIS — A man was shot to death during an altercation with his brother shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday at a U-Haul storage facility in the 400 block of South Tucker Boulevard downtown, ...