Two of the most influential writers of the 20th century, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, were soldiers in the Great War.

A ceremony to rebury the remains of an unknown Soviet soldier – discovered by Austrian archaeologists in 2023 – has been held in ...

On Nov. 27, 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York. The first three years, it was known as the ...

Many prominent calls for compromise between Russia and Ukraine neglect a binding rule of international law: a treaty by which an aggressor extracts ...

There was a time when the world could sit down and write new rules. The decades after 1945 saw an extraordinary wave of treaties: the Geneva Conventions, the Law of the Sea, the Nuclear ...

In 1949, Betty Friedan moved to a Queens garden apartment. Though later she would become world-famous for chronicling the discontents of women in post-World War II America, she had nothing bad to ...

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died, aged 88. He wrote dozens of plays — among them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are ...

Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, was a playwright of linguistic verve, wild theatricality and an inherent sense of intellectual playfulness that blew the mainstream British stage wide open ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, who has died aged 88, wrote plays of dazzling language, intricate wit and dependably intelligent ...

Here’s a look at the life of former Secretary of State John Kerry. Personal Birth date: December 11, 1943 Birth place: Aurora, Colorado Birth name: John Forbes Kerry Father: Richard Kerry, a Foreign ...