Spending a billion dollars to construct a building is no longer the exception. There are many multi-billion-dollar buildings around the world.

He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's ...

Omnipotent leaders may seem untouchable, but systems crack. From mass mobilisation to quiet non-compliance, discover how ...

The rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, alongside his wife Elena, and the policies that led the country to extreme poverty ...

We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. In "How Tyrants Fall", Marcel Dirsus looks at the other side of the story ...

Pictured here: Nicolae Ceausescu addressing a rally a month ... He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day, in Targoviste. About 1,200 people died and around ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs was executed Thursday evening. Prison officials said ...

A former Romanian prosecutor claims that the sound technology allegedly used in Belgrade last Saturday is a similar but more advanced version of the one used by the communist regime in the 1989 ...

Four Canadian nationals were executed in China on drug-related charges, according to Canadian authorities, in a rare case of the country carrying out the death penalty against Westerners.

China executed four Canadian nationals over drug charges earlier this year, prompting strong rebukes from the Western country amidst an already rocky relationship. It is unclear exactly when this ...

China executed four Canadians in recent months, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said Wednesday. Such executions of Westerners were relatively rare. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said she and ...

China has executed four Canadians over the last few months, Canada's foreign affairs minister has said. Melanie Joly said she and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau asked for clemency ...