The British Empire ran history’s biggest legal drug cartel in colonial India—pushing opium, trapping farmers, and fueling ...

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The defeat of Japan in August 1945 has become a footnote to Allied victory in Europe. But the world we inhabit today was ...

With the film’s unprecedented success on Netflix, the streaming service has announced that between August 23 and August 24, a sing-along version of the film will be shown in select theatres in the ...

A mix of historical events, political negotiations, and personal decisions made August 15 the Independence Day of India.

Convicted billionaire Ong Beng Seng will avoid jail in Singapore despite his involvement in a gifting scandal that stunned a ...