The U.S. has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The question, though, is whether this is important ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

This world has witnessed many kings sitting on the most powerful thrones, but one king surpassed them all with his remarkable ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander ... found in Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, are finally being translated ...

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FIRST ON FOX: A covert agency within Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, tasked with the development of Iran’s nuclear program, has been found to be operating out of top ...

Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun is the modern day Pau Gasol says @MettaWorld37 to Scoop B Radio. "The kid from the Rockets, I like him." “I like the kid from Houston, Alperen Şengün ...

In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving ... worldwide every day. Reuters provides business ...

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The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...