One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and kingdoms of Classical Greece... All the more reason to create a video about it ...

Wild Dark Shore. By Charlotte McConaghy. Flatiron Books; 320 pages; $28.99. Castle Point Books; £24.99 Dominic Salt lives on ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Many of the cornerstones of the postwar liberal order are being shattered. The focus of Donald Trump’s second presidency has ...

Trump's trade policies are an admission of capitalism's failures. Perhaps finally enough people have learned the lessons of ...

Russian Revolution, illustrated in the cases of the very early French, German, Italian and US Communist Parties the failed ...

A top-secret Russian unit based in Moscow has changed the landscape of drone warfare, turning what was an advantage for the Ukrainians into a vulnerability.

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be ...

A Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet crashed during a training flight, killing the two pilots on board, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. The crash took place in an area of the north-western Russian ...

Romania has found suspected drone fragments on its soil, the country's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, after Russia attacked Ukrainian port facilities close to the NATO country overnight.

Enjoy magical music mixes, special guest takeovers, and engaging story-telling this Christmas on BBC Radio and BBC Sounds ...