This is the anniversary of the actual day Governor Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 with the first fleet, and claimed the eastern seaboard for Britain, with the establishment ...

Known for its incredible views and more quiet stretches of sandy beach, Botany Bay in Broadstairs was recently ranked by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the UK’s top 55 beaches to visit.

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a ...

The Hippie Pope after his Good Friday visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli jail + In Kafka’s “The Penal Colony,” a man called only the Traveler visits an island penal colony of a country not his own.

Vadim Shamarin, a lieutenant-general, is one of a string of top officials charged in a series of corruption scandals that have engulfed the highest echelons of the Russian military establishment ...

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...

MOSCOW - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Vadim Shamarin ...

Former Top Russian Military Official Gets 7 Years in Penal Colony for Taking Bribes MOSCOW (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven ...