Roman empires to collide
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Chelsea&#39;s 3-1 win against FC Porto was not owner Roman Abramovich&#39;s only reason to smile after Champions League action on Wednesday.
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The fate of Iraqâs former minister of defense will turn on the ability of Iraqâs fractious sects and political alliances to work together.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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Two sides with something to prove barrel down a narrow road at one another with no intention of letting up. If neither swerves at the last second, there will be a crash that inflicts heavy damage on both.
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World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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An international team of experts unveil a digital simulation, said to be the world's biggest, of fourth century Rome.
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It's not easy being at the top when your empire is crumbling.
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Some observers believe the two arch-rivals will wind up adopting the other's design.
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La Lega: Â«Governo in rotta di collisione. Diffidiamo premier dall&#39;andare in Europa e presentare una posizione comuneÂ». BRUXELLES - L&#39;inizio dei negoziati per l&#39;ingresso della Turchia nell&#39;Unione europea Ã¨ interesse di tutti.
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Who could have guessed that throughout the rise and fall of Rome&#39;s emperors, monarchs and politicians a lowly creature has reigned supreme in the ruins of Trajan&#39;s mighty empire?
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Spain can trace a link between its heady days of empire, culminating in the conquest of the 'New World' in the reign of Isabel the Catholic, who died 500 years ago, and a passion for chess, protagonists of the intellectual's favourite boardgame maintain.
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This animation illustrates a massive collision between rocky, embryonic planets as big as mountain ranges. Such collisions form the basis of the planet-building process.
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Najaf and Karbala 2004, Srebrenica 1995: two bloody conflicts, miles apart, both the result of events more than 80 years ago. Few places demonstrate as vividly as the former Yugoslavia and Iraq that todayâs
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This could be the clash, which may turn into the crash of the titans.
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MADRID : Rome was not built in a day, as the old saying goes, and it may take a little time to resolve the problems at the football club that has the name of the Italian capital.
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When Bush meets Hu, they will find that they have much in common
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ROME, September 20 (Reuters Life!) - For the ancient Romans   it was an enormous arena for "Ben Hur"-style chariot races, but   for modern-day Italians it's little more than a big, dusty   field. Until now.