The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

The Chagos Islands lie roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km to the south of the southern tip of India.

The newly elected mayor and four councilors in a small city in Canada are refusing to swear an oath to King Charles III, ...

During an interview Monday with Tom Homan, Trump’s former director of Immigration Customs and Enforcement, Fox News’s Sean ...

Trump has yet to submit a Memo of Understanding to the General Services Administration, which would theoretically articulate ...

Virginia was one of the first 13 colonies and the birthplace of four of the first five ... The Virginia governor was sued for his order by the US justice department and civil rights groups said that ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

The 20th century established republics as the global standard, with monarchies declining after World War I and most former European colonies declaring independence as republics following World War II.

A charity urging people to wear white rather than red poppies has been accused of attempting to 'hijack' Remembrance Sunday ...

The scientific name of the coconut is Cocos nucifera. This specific epithet, “nucifera,” means “nut-bearing” in Latin, aptly ...

Colombus first arrived in the New World under the flag of Spain on ... They introduced the metal plow with which they used to ...