After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

In 1831, a mystery eruption occurred, causing a 1°C drop in global temperatures only recently identified in a paper by ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

My story began at Baby House No. 1 in Novosibirsk, Russia, one of thousands of children left behind in the wake of the Soviet ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

In 1870, Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from an accredited law school in the United States -- Union College of Law in Chicago ... In 1908, a spectacular explosion occurred over central ...

Handwritten letters to his Nazi superiors boast of Dobrowolski “personally” taking part “in the extermination of the Jews” ...

Rather than shrug helplessly over a lack of trust in media, two New Zealand journalists are rolling up their sleeves to ...

A self-styled shaman and his assistant have been arrested after police raided a bizarre ritual in Russia and found ...