Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city.

ADIFF NY 2024 showcases 65 films from 32 countries with icons like Denzel & Makeba, Raoul Peck and more. Catch US & NY premieres Nov 29–Dec 15 in the city!

When British warships sailed up to the colony in 1664, the Dutch surrendered to the British without firing a shot. New Amsterdam was renamed New York City and retained some Dutch cultural influences ...

While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

During the British occupation of New York in the mid-1770s, Fraunces was forced to cook ... Martha and George Washington and ...

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘The Other Mohan in Britain's India Ocean Empire’ will be released on 15 November on ...

Frank Auerbach, who has died aged 93, was an artist of remarkable intensity whose use of thick paint gave his work the ...

Zoo visitors were shocked as three penguins began mating inside their enclosure. Ariel Trinidad and friends were watching a colony of king penguins at Ocean Park in Hong Kong when three of the birds - ...

Mali last month announced the nationalisation of the Yatela gold mine, a non-operating asset in which ...

Two former editors at Stand News were convicted in August, the first journalists found guilty of sedition since the former British colony returned to China ... services such as the Associated Press, ...

Tariffs, border crossings, mass deportations of migrants and military strikes on cartels: Mexico is in the firing line of the ...

and bring French troops to assist with pushing the British forces away from New York and New England toward the middle ...