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Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine that you wake up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours for …

Now that Pope Francis stays in a critical condition in the hospital, millions of Catholics pray that he will recover. The Vatican offered today hope by saying that there has …

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king that Richard III conquered in the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and …

It was a plot that would have been completely at home in a hardly credible airport thriller. A dissatisfied ex-poor medicine issues threats through hair-raising phone calls, before the police …

Eighty years may have passed, but for Renee Salt – who was just a child when she saw Nazi soldiers marching through Poland for the first time – the horrors …

Medals awarded to a bomb removal hero called 'The Man Who Saved Charing Cross' after he bravely disarmed a parachute line with just one hammer and chisel during the Blitz …

Jeanne -Cooling The certified oldest person ever was the French wife Jeanne -Kalm, who died in 1997 on 122 and 164 days. Her unparalleled lifespan has been the subject of …

A newly translated Runic Inscription has 'mandatory' shed new light on who has had the Galloway treasure, experts have announced. The Viking Age Schat, which contains more than 11 km …

The harrowing report of a pilot of the First World War of the bloody first day of the Battle of the Somme has come for 109 years with dozens of …

A saint whose doctrine 'supports' the Christian faith is to be seen for the first time in 750 years – and now we know his traumatic cause of death. Thomas …