The Russian hockey star’s ties with Putin – and the Great One’s warmth with Washington – make his goal-scoring acumen hard to ...

As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, Churchill's descendants will take part in a service alongside ...

In February 1945, world leaders convened at the Yalta Conference in Crimea to determine the shape of the post-war world. Although Nazi Germany was still resisting fiercely, it was evident their defeat ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

Under-touristed, decently priced and unfailingly friendly, Latvia is the best of the Baltics, and a beacon of hope.

Oleg Gordievsky, a double agent who helped British intelligence during the Cold War while stationed in London as the Soviets' ...

A group of Nebraska leaders and aspiring leaders explored the history, culture, religion and agriculture of three nations in ...

"In their wake, the Soviets left a shattered country," reports the US government's Office of the Historian website. "In which the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group, seized control ...

One of the most important spies of the Cold War, whose covert passing of secrets to Britain helped change the course of history and avert a nuclear war, has died. Oleg Gordievsky, a former Soviet KGB ...

Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country. The Sudanese Armed ...

The Sudanese army said on Friday it took control of ministries in addition to the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, a significant milestone in a two-year-old war between the army and paramilitary ...

Dating to 1610, the Palace of the Governors was the original capitol of New Mexico and has been in public use longer than any other building in the country. The adobe structure was connected to ...