So states Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League. The Master Detective claims to be an accomplished orienteer, able to ...

Before the highway was built, the Laurel-Clayton neighborhood of Worcester provided a sanctuary and home for the local Black ...

A letter reportedly written about the prime suspect behind the infamous Jack the Ripper murders could now be worth a whopping £125,000. Dating back to 1888, Jack the Ripper is one of the most famous ...

Growing urban populations, more public awareness of pollution and ambitious redevelopment plans propel big drinking water and wastewater treatment investment in two key cities.

An historian thinks he's uncovered the identity of Jack the Ripper, claiming a DNA sample proves Aaron Kosminski was the ...

Barbara grew up in Casson St, a modest back street connecting Old Montague St and Chicksand St in Spitalfields. Opposite was Black Lion Yard, known then as the Hatton Garden of the East End because it ...

The elevated one-mile Park East Freeway had cut through Wisconsin’s largest city since 1971, the year that the Bucks last won ...

featured anonymous accounts of the London slums. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), who worked as a clerk at the People’s Palace 1886-1890, in 1896 published A Child of the Jago, a story about children ...

Safeway bought this San Francisco lot at a discount decades ago. Now it is poised to sell it to a developer with big plans.

IT’S a great time to be alive – if you’re an asylum seeker or foreign criminal.  Never have the chances of you being booted out of the country been lower. Never have the chances of getting your ...

In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s busiest sites couldn’t be simpler ...

Of the 15 million passengers handled by Mumbai’s Terminal 1 (T1) at Santacruz (East), flights carrying 10 million passengers are likely to shift to T1 of NMIA from October end, while the ...