Today in History for July 12: In 1191, the armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard I (The Lionhearted), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre, now located in northern Israel ...

In Nigeria, when institutions become complicit, and the system itself begins to lose the trust of its beneficiaries, it often takes an unlikely hero to sound the alarm. A few weeks ago, a friend of ...