Empress Elisabeth of Austria remains a figure of fascination 125 years on. Beautiful, tragic, powerful – it is easy to understand why the tale of this ill-fated royal beauty has captured the ...

Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment of Caesar's assassination as well as performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of ...

Before the assassination, the Ides of March was best known as a festival. The popular time for feasting and drinking marked the festival of Roman deity Anna Perenna. It was also traditionally the time ...

“Orestes Being Pursued by the Furies,” by William Adolphe Bouguereau 1862. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Many people have at least heard of the name Orestes, which is the name of a ...

A mum-of-one has been found dead after being forced into prostitution in Northern Cyprus, according to human rights organisations. Anastasia Melega, 24, who had a son aged four, was found dead in ...

A Deerfield Township woman was killed after investigators said she got burned during a freak accident involving her backyard fire pit.A neighbor told police he heard what sounded like an explosion ...

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. – After 132 years, the wreck of a ship that sank in Lake Superior has been found. The wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, 1892, was discovered about ...

“So this is not something I’d usually comment on, but I do really believe there is some learning in regards to this tragic passing of Mr. and Mrs. Hackman,” Heming Willis, 46, began her video.

The Gauteng Department of Education has dispatched its psycho-social support unit following the tragic loss of four learners from Tom Newby Primary School, Rynfield Primary School and an ECD ...

Constance Marten's lawyer has said the death of her newborn baby was a "tragic accident" caused by her "falling asleep and compromising her baby's breathing". In his opening speech to the jury ...

Gene Hackman might not have realised his wife, who died seven days before he did, was actually deceased before he died, according to experts. The beloved actor, 95, was dead for nine days before he ...