Netflix's six-episode miniseries, The Empress, has a huge fan base eagerly awaiting a second season of the gripping story that's surprisingly based on real events for some.

The Empress is based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (or Sisi) who ruled for 44 years from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1854 until her assassination in 1898. The German ...

The opulent SchÖnbrunn Palace opened its doors to tourists looking to spend the night like Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Sisi.Credit: Reuters Sisi, or Elisabeth, often referred to as a 19th ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a campus in Yonkers, N.Y. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion.

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However, numbers and rates varied by state, along with the prevalence of different types of homelessness. California alone accounted for over 24% of all homelessness in America, based on the 2024 ...

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MOHALI: Two former Punjab Police cops, both aged over 70, were on Tuesday awarded life sentence for the killing of an Army jawan and a farmer, falsely implicated in a murder case and accused of ...

UBS published its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results on 4 February. UBS provides securities products and research in equities, fixed income, rates, foreign exchange and metals as well as ...

Trump compares Israel’s ‘tiny land’ in the Middle East to a pen on his desk US President Donald Trump compares Israel’s ‘tiny land’ in the Middle East to a pen on his desk. From a ...