Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have seized a second airport in east Congo amid fierce fighting. Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas if fighting resumes as both sides prepare for a ...

The outgoing deputy force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was injured on Friday after a convoy taking peacekeepers to Beirut airport was "violently attacked," UNIFIL ...

By Laurie Milner. Can a truly multi-racial society ever be achieved in modern Britain, or does history prevent it? By Diane Abbott. Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus by Dennis ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...