I n 1884, the first correlation between beriberi and a dietary factor was made by Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese Naval doctor.

The letter is formally addressed to Brussels, but it is aimed squarely at Jerusalem. Veldkamp gives Hamas a single vague line — calling for the release of hostages — and then devotes his legal outrage ...

Dutch universities have inadvertently facilitated extremist fundraising under humanitarian pretenses. At Maastricht University, FPM’s fundraising explicitly benefited extremist-affiliated ...

The nation will remember those who fell in battle as this year's VE Day marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2.

The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinied against Captain William Bligh and set him adrift in the middle of the Pacific in a ...

Including: Sunderland unemployed activist acquitted after police fit-up, Dutch East Indies continued, Japan continued, ...

The ship was laden with silver coins and carried somewhere between 320 and 340 passengers bound for the city of Batavia in present-day Indonesia, which was both the ship’s namesake and the ...

Hot on the heels of the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end, best-selling author Phil Craig's new book offers a powerful and original retelling of how the war's closing chapters reshaped the future ...

Last time round Africa and Europe both got two qualifying slots, as did Asia, with the Americas and East Asia Pacific each ... Pakistan, the West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa, England and ...

The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon ... In 1642, the Council of the Indies dispatched another explorer and merchant, Abel Janzoon Tasman on a voyage of exploration to little-charted areas east of the ...