Yang Xianyi, translator of 'Dream of Red Mansions,' other Chinese classics, dies at age 94 Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, ...
Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer is set to play a posthumous role this week when the trial of the main jailer for Cambodia's ...
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was a rabid anti-Semite who called Adolf Hitler "a big romantic" and despised the pope, a new book of his mistress Claretta Petacci's diaries revealed. The Corriere della Sera daily published extracts of the book "Secret Mussolini," taken ...
U.S. and its allies won the Cold WarÕs battle for freedom by cooperating Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the eventual end of the Cold War, there are still disputes about why it happened and who should get ...
FILE- In this file photo taken Oct. 19, 2009, articles featuring the image of late Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong and President Barack Obama dressed in Communist Cultural revolution era military uniform are sold at a shop in Beijing, China. The Chinese ...
Advanced World War II Japanese subs found off Hawaii where they were scuttled in 1946 Two captured Japanese submarines scuttled by the U.S. Navy just after World War II have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean south of Pearl Harbor. The subs ...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 11: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh during a memorial service to mark the passing of the World War I generation at Westminster Abbey on November 11, 2009 in London. Armistice Day traditionally marks ...
German Navy sailors are seen near the Arc de Triomphe during Armistice Day ceremonies in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. France is commemorating the end of World War I hand-in-hand with the country vanquished in the so-called "great war" as German Chancellor ...
Soldiers of The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery fire a World War One 13-pounder artillery piece, at Horse Guards Parade in London, Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009, to mark the end of the two minutes silence to remember the Armistice Day signing which ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, top right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands to onlookers after Armistice Day ceremonies Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 in Paris. France is commemorating the end of World War I hand-in-hand with the country vanquished in the so-called ...
A British police woman stands by a large poppy displayed to mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I on Armistice Day in Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Tens of millions of civilians and soldiers were killed ...
Youngsters look at poppies placed in a fountain to mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I on Armistice Day in Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Tens of millions of civilians and soldiers were killed during what ...
