Longtime residents often crossed from one side of the border to the other without a second thought. That day, however, would ...

April marks a glorious chapter in India’s independence history.

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

Donald Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to consider taking land from Denmark. What did the U.S. want last time and why?

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

Marking the end of the Second World War in Europe, the date was thereafter to be known as Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day.

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

But more than a century ago top U.S. officials saw in the Virgin Islands what Trump’s administration sees in Greenland: key military ... to form Imperial Germany and the empire rapidly became ...

S ome of the oldest operating airports in the United States date back to the Wright Brothers. But what about Europe? Europe was the origin of human flight, which occurred in Franc ...

Jay Inslee directed all Washington state and United States flags to be lowered to half-staff ... is regarded by many as the start of World War II when Germany invaded Poland.

In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other ...