On this day in aviation history, January 28, 1917, the Junkers J.I made its first flight. Developed as the J 4 by the Junkers ...

Since the close of World War II, more than 115 people have died from encounters with unexploded ordnance in the North Sea—but ...

In Germany, the emperor abdicated following the defeat in World War I, and democracy there developed during the time of the Weimar Republic. This democratic experience was again put to use after ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

From All Quiet on the Western Front to Stalingrad, these films show war in all its visceral horror – and bring the ...

Lithuania’s then-Culture Minister Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet "The Nutcracker" was no longer an appropriate way to celebrate the ...

Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South.

Men joined up and fought in World War I, also known as the Great War, for all kinds of reasons; some fought for the Empire, ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find ...

Dr Yanqiu Zheng is a historian of China in the world and is the Associate Director of Asia and Pacific Programs at St. Lawrence University’s Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is Europe's longest-serving head of government – and the most polarizing. In an NZZ ...