Encyclopaedia Britannica says it's fixed its mangled history of Irish Civil War Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. apologized Wednesday for mangling the history of the ...
Last surviving American-born World War I veteran celebrates 109th birthday in W.Va. America's last surviving World War I veteran is now 109. Frank ...
New head of Serbia Orthodox Church urges dialogue to bridge divisions with Roman Catholics The new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Thursday urged dialogue to overcome long-standing divisions with Roman Catholics. Patriarch Irinej said that a 2013 anniversary important to ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honoured Holocaust victims at a war memorial in the Polish capital, on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation. The Israeli leader bowed his head in front of the imposing grey marble ...
A wax figure of First Lady Michelle Obama is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in New York to kick off Black History month Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Copyright 2010 AP Features
Kazimiera Wasiak is a 76-year-old Polish pensioner who will forever remain a child of Auschwitz. When she was only 11, Wasiak spent six months in Nazi Germany?s largest and most infamous World War II death camp, barely surviving on "a slop of ...
An Arab-Israeli shopkeeper is locked in a Byzantine battle with the Coptic Church over an ancient Jerusalem cellar, in a saga involving Christianity's holiest site and a 12th century Muslim general. Lawyers on both sides expect authorities to decide soon whether the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday opened an exhibition of the Auschwitz death camp blueprints, saying Jews are again facing calls for their extermination, an apparent reference to Iran. "There is evil in the world. If it is unstopped it expands, ...
Butler hits late 3-pointer to lift Richmond past George Washington 62-57 Ryan Butler made a 3-pointer with 26 seconds left to lift Richmond to a 62-57 win over George Washington on Saturday. Kevin Anderson, who scored 21 points and made four 3-pointers, ...
WASHINGTON - JANUARY 22: The "Augsburger Geschlechterbuch," a book taken from Germany by a U.S. Army Captain at the end of World War II, is on display before its return to the people of Germany during a ceremony at the State Department ...
Exhibit in Philadelphia examines the lost legacy of women in Pop Art during the 1960s As radical social changes rocked 1960s America, the contemporary art world remained largely a boys' club that largely ignored female Pop artists as their male counterparts grew ...
Thousands of Filipino World War II veterans still waiting to receive payments promised by US Gaudencio Sotio injured his left leg fighting to expel the Japanese military from the Philippines during World War II. Though Filipino, he was fighting under the command ...
