Roger Fenton’s photograph “the Valley of the Shadow of Death,” is considered the first-ever iconic war image, and was taken on this day in 1885.

Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...

The dreadful conflict that was the First World War is often being brought back into stark focus as humanity ponders the ...

The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis – and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...

Oxford University academics drank out of a chalice made from a human skull until as recently as 2015. A new book written Professor Dan Hicks reveals that the item was still in use just a decade ago.

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to ...

See photos captured by Beacon photographers at reenactment's of Paul Reveres' famous midnight ride and the Battle of ...

Donald Trump has threatened to walk away from peace talks “very shortly” if a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine is ...

It’s striking to compare the radical departure in Jesus Christ’s message from the kingdom of domination, intimidation and ...

Homes on Alte Amberger Street in Grafenwoehr, Germany, lay in ruin following U.S. military air raids on April 5 and April 8, ...

Thaxton proved to be a tough operator, and Hatton, who KO’d Carlos Maussa, wasn’t able to stop him, instead the fight went ...