As rebel forces seize Damascus, Bashar al-Assad’s presidency faces an uncertain end.

Syrians celebrated the apparent fall of the Assad regime by toppling statues of Hafez al-Assad, the former president and father of Bashar a...

Another witness said the statue had been smashed when he went by the square later. Video footage circulating online and verified by AFP sho...

While campaigning for the Maharashtra assembly polls, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra invoked Bal Thackeray, stating that neither he ...

The collapse of the Shivaji statue in Maharashtra was likely due to corroded nuts and bolts, causing a failure in the statue's steel frame,...

From flooded underpasses and badly constructed roads to falling bridges, dubious construction quality has become less uncommon than comfort...

Russia's war on Ukraine has given a renewed push to topple the last remaining Soviet monuments in nations that regained their sovereignty f...

Minutes later, a group of six stomp on it and take turns hammering the statue before taking off, the report said. "To see them coming after...

Archaeologists have hit the jackpot as they unearth a buried treasure of Egyptian artefacts, including idols, mummified coffins, manuscript...

Discerning the racist potential of all nouns and adjectives is really rather difficult.

One of the more disturbing trends in India is the unfortunate politicisation of art, where artists are asked to paint murals in Parliament,...

Campaigners had also demanded changes to the Rhodes scholarship.

Demonstrators attached ropes to the statue of Edward Colston before pulling it down to cheers and roars of approval from the crowd.

The home ministry's second advisory in the space of a few hours said that district magistrates and superintendents would be held "personall...

"So many people were oppressed by the Left. Some of them must have this feeling of revenge," said union minister Giriraj Singh.

An 18th century statue in Lisbon broke recently after being knocked down by a tourist attempting to take a selfie with it.

ET Panache rounds up other political statues that have created traction, for reasons good or bad.