this place of worship is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second-largest in the world (only Temple Emanu-El in New York City is slightly bigger). Opened in 1859, this building features ...

It lies about 1,300 miles from the tip of Maine and is in line with the shortest direct route between Europe ... its eastern coastline, Russia asked the United States to buy Alaska in 1859.

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Some Middle Eastern populations have a genetic variation ... The book was published in 1859. Is what was true then still true today? Was it true even in Darwin’s lifetime? Biological evolution ...

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

The world famous Big Ben is actually the name of the great bell, cast and hung in 1859, in the clock-faced Elizabeth Tower ... culture and is filled with 1,000 works of art from Middle Eastern and ...

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

The crisis threatens to overturn a decades-long effort by the United States and EU to preserve Georgian democracy, which has ...

The EU firmly condemns Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and stands with Ukraine and its people. The EU has imposed ...

Monroe County sheriff's deputies arrested a Paris, Missouri, woman Friday morning for allegedly taking $23,000 from a school booster club, according to the sheriff's office. Jessica Howard was a ...

The fantasy begins when Diop gives voice to Object No. 26, a statue that represents King Ghezo, who ruled from 1818 to 1859. Shot close up by cinematographer Josephine Drouin Viallard, the statue ...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — President Donald Trump’s abrupt freeze of U.S. foreign aid is sending shockwaves through Eastern ...