Most stories of the Vikings and their gods focus on men. It’s time for the women to take centre stage: from giantesses to bad ...

Milunka Savic, history’s most decorated female soldier, disguised herself as a man to fight for Serbia in WWI. She cleared trenches, captured enemies, and earned top honors, including the Legion of ...

Germany has unveiled plans to introduce voluntary military service. From January 2026, all 18-year-old men will be required to complete a questionnaire asking if they are interested and willing to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Female veterans and their children have begun moving into the San Diego Women's Veteran Center in Escondido, which was launched in August by local non-profit, Wounded Warrior Homes ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has spent the best part of two decades demonstrating to the world how much beautiful complexity there is to be found in soccer. His main striker, however, is here ...

The chant that greeted Mary Sheffield on Detroit's primary election night rang true Tuesday: "First female mayor! First female mayor!" Detroit ― one of the country's Blackest cities ― finally joined ...

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...

Hair parted in the middle, cropped at the back, with a wavy lock styled above one ear. That’s not my haircut of choice, but if you were an elite Viking, it may well have been. That’s the upshot of a ...

Houston – Houston is no stranger to high-level competitors, and one of its brightest is Barclay Stockett known to fans as the Sparkly Ninja. She’s small but mighty with a fierce presence on the ...

For years, we’ve watched with frustration as Democratic administrations pulled America’s military away from its core mission and dragged it into a culture war that it never asked for. As a veteran and ...