On Defender of the Fatherland Day, Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden. The President observed a minute of silence in memory of the fallen soldiers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin must be prosecuted as a war criminal regardless of the outcome of talks to end almost four ...

The late Byzantine scholar Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, one of Greece's most internationally recognised historians, will be remembered as a vivid and charismatic presence. Once, at the 2016 Delphi Economic ...

President Vladimir Putin marked Defender of the Fatherland Day by promising to improve Russia’s nuclear triad and handing out ...

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

Some of the world’s most infamous conquerors established empires in Samarkand, the 3000-year-old city that is now part of ...

Victorian burial ground Highgate Cemetery is the last resting place of famous folk ranging from Karl Marx to George Michael.

In a 2023 paper, Professor Ingo Strauch argued that graffiti should be considered a genre of Indian epigraphy using a ...

Flashbacks is a weekly series looking back at the over 100-year history of The News Leader and its place across the Staunton, Augusta County region.

US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said that he and Jared Kushner have offered “some options” to the warring parties in Ukraine. Witkoff expressed hope that this could lead to a summit ...

Mary Helen MacKillop, daughter of Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald, was born on January 15, 1842, in what is now the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a tomb more than a thousand years old in Panama containing human remains alongside gold and ...