In 945, a tribute mission ended with Igor torn apart in a pagan grove, and his widow Olga answered with a campaign of vengeance that stunned the entire Slavic world. From that blood-soaked beginning, ...

To understand why Belarus isn’t part of Russia, you have to go back to the medieval world of the Kievan Rus and the later power struggles between Lithuania, Poland, and Muscovy. For centuries, Belarus ...

Mount Whitney is one of those places that quietly sits at the top of many adventure wish lists. Standing tall at 14,505 feet (4,421 metres), it is the highest peak in the contiguous United States and ...

A Newsweek map shows U.S. territorial expansion over the years, as President Donald Trump continues to push for the acquisition of Greenland. Denmark has warned that a U.S. military invasion would ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had ...