The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.

Greece became the first European state to abolish slavery and declare freedom and independence for all during the Greek ...

For 1,300 years, over 100 million slaves were trafficked from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. Owning Black people as property left deep demographic, cultural, and psychological scars across the ...

The Taliban has published a new penal code enshrining some of its most backward practices into the law of the land in Afghanistan, with women in particular set to suffer at the hands of the courts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signed by the hardline Islamist group’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the 90-page criminal code includes anachronistic ...

Allison Mack, the former “Smallville” actress convicted for her role in the notorious Nxivm cult, has revealed what she’s doing with her life following her early release from prison. The former TV ...