Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red in Sydney ahead of Australia Day - Police say they are investigating incident which saw statue’s hand and nose knocked off ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

The survival of a museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook is reliant on a mystery benefactor. Middlesbrough Council had proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum earlier this ...

Vandals in Australia poured red paint over a statue of famed British explorer James Cook, officials said Friday ahead of large anti-colonial protests expected over the weekend.

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

SYDNEY - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before ...

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their ...