Carthage fought the Roman Navy with ships captured from them in previous battle, but lost anyway, which explains why the Sicilian seafloor is littered with remains of ships built by the side that won

Two allies involved in war of words after Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman says Red Army saved 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from Nazi death camps, which Bulgarian president calls 'deep ignorance of history'

Secretary Priti Patel faces calls to quit after 12 meetings with the prime minister and other top figures during a 'family vacation' in August come to light

David Shimron, the prime minister's attorney and confidant, and another associate were released under restrictive terms

Someone in the Israeli government must stand up and put the good of the country and public above the personal good of the prime minister

The assassination of the former prime minister in 1995 isn't the main reason a Palestinian state hasn't been established - despite what Yasser Arafat believed

I asked a knowledgeable friend to help unravel the mystery: 'From whom were the Jews liberated in 1948, if 30 years earlier the British, their ostensible enslavers, promised them a state?' I didn't understand his learned explanation

The legislation is seen as an attempt to assist Netanyahu, who is currently at the center of several police investigations