Good Friday, observed by Christians worldwide as the day Jesus Christ was crucified, is history’s most paradoxically named event. It commemorates a brutal execution that, paradoxically, became the ...

Spartacus, the historical drama on Starz, surpasses Game of Thrones in the sheer brutality of its named character deaths.

Hundreds of barefoot men beat themselves with flails and at least 10 were to be nailed onto crosses throughout Good Friday in a blood-soaked display of religious fervour in the Philippines. Every Good ...