In order to nourish decision-making, here’s a thumb-nail review of France’s 13 regions. The order is entirely ... Unmissable sight: When the troops of the new French republic swept through ...

Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered the New World. Spain and Portugal came to dominate South and Central America with Britain and France fighting ... that ...

Under the Electoral College system, states operate on a winner-takes-all basis, allowing a candidate to win all of the ...

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

One of the wealthiest colonies in the Americas ... who had seized power in France in 1799, was building a global empire with aspirations in the New World. In 1802, he dispatched 20,000 troops ...

When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies. New York achieved statehood in 1788, with the adoption of the U.S ...

As two former French colonies in Africa join the Commonwealth ... their diplomatic armoury in a bid to ease their reliance on France. They have been admitted to what was originally founded ...

New owners renovating a house in eastern France made the shocking discovery of human remains that are likely that of a former owner who vanished 15 years ago, prosecutors said Monday. "A corpse ...

In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had a place on the Russian map ... thirteen volumes of data that took twelve years to compile. There were two major discoveries ...

Due to runoff into water sources, roughly 90% of the population of the two islands test positive for chlordecone in their blood. Rates of prostate cancer, which are linked to the carcinogenic ...

Napoleon didn’t have the military power to patrol this vast territory, and once France lost its Caribbean colonies ...

New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. India is known for "unpredictable traffic conditions, with everything from cars and motorcycles to rickshaws and even livestock sharing ...