Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

In the history of modern states, no person has been able to convert their wealth into such global political influence. By ...

Meet five remarkable Australians who recount their immigration stories to Australia after escaping Europe and the atrocities of the Holocaust. Through their resilience, courage, and triumph, hear ...

Peter and his family arrived in Australia in 1949. Peter describes how, having survived the Holocaust, his parents fled the former Czechoslovakia to escape Communist totalitarianism under Joseph ...

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide ...

During the Cold War, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha scattered a colony of 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country. This is ...

Members and supporters gathered at the White Tower Restaurant at Blackpool Pleasure Beach to mark the anniversary, with current president Elaine Smith standing up to speak exactly 50 years to the hour ...

As Syrian rebels put an end to half-a-century-old architecture presided over by the Assad family, the question raised itself — how much of this worked to a plan? Clearly, there were long-term moves at ...

Yes, of course, it was World War II, 80 years ago, with a lot of help from allies like Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union ... we slip toward an ice-cold watery grave. But there are other moments ...

Prominent historian Yuri Dmitriyev, who had been unearthing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's crimes in the northern Russian republic of Karelia, was put into punitive solitary confinement for 6 days in ...