The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

The newest royal on the continent of Europe has made his debut – and he’s been given a name filled with regal history.

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king whose brutal colonisation of the Congo inspired Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...

Historically, European countries had only been interested in small trading posts, but following King Leopold II’s research, they were now rushing to gain control of huge parts of land that would ...