But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the United States ...

American prelate, an exploding battleship, and the Roman Question all fed into Pope Leo XIII's decision to publish his 1899 ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its ...

Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal Rwandan government, the new Tutsi-led government began its involvement in DRC (then known as The Republic of Zaire).

Though there's not been much recent news directly about the game, work on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) remake is ongoing. That said, since we've not seen any substantial ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

This is a time for great rejoicing and liturgical renewal. The official version of the Roman Missal is called the Latin Typical Edition. In 2002 the Holy See approved the Third Typical Edition of ...

In 1787, as the luminaries of the American Revolution gathered in Philadelphia to author a new US Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked what the form of government might be – republic or monarchy.