Rome News

Hannibal of Carthage was one of the baddest Black men to come out of Africa. His military conquests are still the stuff of legend more than 2,000 years later.

The northern Aegean village of Assos, with its elegant stone houses converted into hotels and a small fishing harbor, is just one stop on a driving tour from Istanbul down the Aegean coast.

Romans bewildered by their city's first big snowfall in 26 years used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks, and kitchen utensils to clear windshields Saturday.

Historian and philosopher Will Durant said it best, " A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has first destroyed itself from within .