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Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the...

ROME: A stolen letter dating from 1493 in which Christopher Columbus describes his trip to the Americas was handed back to Italy on Wednesday after being discovered in the library of the US Congress.

COLUMBUS: Hundreds of volunteers have joined the search for an Ohio State University football player who went missing earlier this week and was absent from the team's game on Saturday, where he was scheduled to be honored alongside other players.

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Columbus, accusing his Muslim critics of lacking "self-confidence".