Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews ...

His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two ...

Police in Australia launched an investigation on Friday after a statue of British naval officer James Cook was found ...

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...

NSW Police said officers were investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook ... restore statues of Cook on an annual basis." Captain Cook claimed the east coast of the Australian continent ...

SYDNEY >> A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before ...

A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s east has been splashed with red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off in the leadup to the Australia ... statue of Captain James Cook in Randwick ...

While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...