Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from footage of Oscar Jenkins released by court in Russian-controlled Ukraine An Australian who fought for Ukraine has ...

Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...

In 1789, more than 200 female thieves, prostitutes, and con artists were rounded up from London’s most notorious prisons and shipped off to an Australian penal colony aboard a leaky vessel named the ...

On Aug. 4, 2022, WNBA star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years of prison time to be served at a Russian penal colony. The sentence may have some wondering what a penal colony is. According to ...

Rescue of ‘Catalpa Six’ in 1876 involved a secret agent posing as a wealthy investor and a whaling ship flying the Stars and Stripes The Catalpa, the ship used to rescue the Irish prisoners from ...