Musician Peter Frampton turns 75 and actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan turns 59, among the famous birthdays for April 22.

April 27 is Moehanga Day, the anniversary of the day in 1806 when Ngāpuhi warrior Moehanga became the first Māori to visit ...

A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...

He was known for gigantic and often controversial monuments, including some taller than the Statue of Liberty.

A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean came across the unexpected sight of a Ford automobile in ...

In 1878, two nieces of Pope Pius IX ended their "begging tour" of the West in Omaha, where they could set up the first Order of the Poor Clares in ...

Cardinal Roger Mahony has repeatedly apologized for his handling of clerical sexual abuse in Los Angeles. In 2013, internal ...

A plant native to the areas around the western Amazon River basin on both sides of the Andes Mountains, cacao is believed to ...

In an interview aired on Sharjah TV, His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler ...

Assad's regime collapses, and Israel fears strategic weapons could fall into jihadist hands. A missile boat flotilla of the ...