Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, in the sixth public execution since their return to power.
Corporal punishments -- mainly flogging -- have been common under the Taliban authorities and employed for crimes including ...
France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen has thrown in recent weeks all her energy at a Paris trial into fighting what she ...
Increasing number of executions in Iran has prompted an outcry by human rights groups. Rape and adultery are among offences ...
An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of women over the past two decades has been executed in public, the country's state ...
French soccer star Wissam Ben Yedder has been sentenced to a suspended prison term of two years after his trial last month in ...
It’s almost a decade since Wolf Hall aired on the BBC. Back then, the wonderful actor Bernard Hill, who played the ...
It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...
WELL, haven’t the past few days been fun? After Donald Trump marched to victory in the US Presidential election on Wednesday ...
Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.