American singer best known for her song All About that Bass and Lips are Moving. Photo by PR Photos

For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer?

Six different roads to Rome intersect in this Algerian city which was an important trade hub in the ancient world. 

Decades after he lost the Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee got his own holiday honoring him in 1889. Some Southern states still celebrate it.

The brutal conflict had lasted for about 20 years.

Marcel Marceau was born to Jewish parents in France on the border with Germany. And when the Nazis invaded, he and his family fled south, where Marceau jo...

The Battle of Antietam begins in 1862, NASA unveils the first space shuttle in 1976, and other things that happened on this day in history.

"The corpses served as an inexhaustible source of food, which substantially allowed survival of the ants trapped down in otherwise extremely unfavourable ...

Mike Tyson once said that he was "so disappointed" that he'd never killed anyone in the ring.

Before becoming a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union, Valentina Tereshkova was an amateur skydiver and a textile factory worker.