Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday as a deadly heat wave went into a second week around much of ...

More than a dozen people dead; tens of thousands of others evacuated;and thousands of hectares of land burning – this is the ‘titanic battle’ the Balkans is facing. Wildfires are currently raging in ...

Firefighters battled wildfires at nearly 100 locations across Bulgaria on Sunday, with houses burned and residents evacuated, ...

Bulgaria has to deal with more than 230 fire fronts. The EU sent four helicopters and two aircraft to help tackle them. 11 ...

Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than ...

Bursa, in Turkey, has been surrounded by wildfires forcing almost 2,000 people to flee their homes, while a firefighter has ...

The real world is very complex, unlike what you see in movies and on TV. Our planet, with its varied cultures and societies, ...

Currently, 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations recognise the state of Palestine. Palestine has been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November ...

The nomadic Romani communities that came to Europe centuries ago have been subject to persecution in many of the countries they have settled in.

Tributes have been paid in Birmingham and beyond by musicians and fans after the death of the Black Sabbath frontman.