Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on August 03. Check what happened ...

The Space Race is history. Now, the US is racing China over AI, laying out its strategy in a combative new action plan.

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history ...

Nothing scared Tom Lehrer more than someone from the government who wanted to fix the world. He knew—because he was one, ...

Steintorwall located right next to Hamburg's central train station. Guests at a Turkish snack shop must shuffle their chairs ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

But both conceits — a world economic order that isolates America and a liberal order that continues on without us — are ...

Who would have thought that a generation after the collapse of communism, freedom of speech would become controversial?

Places left behind are often weirdly magnetic with crumbling walls, creeping vines, and silence where life once thrived.

Germany’s push to rearm in response to mounting Russian aggression in Europe will see its annual defense budget double to as much as €162 billion ($189 billion) within four years.  That annual tally ...