For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

A good travel memoir will not just describe a place but hold a mirror up to the one experiencing it. The crowded market ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

To sum up, Russia’s future in the changing world order depends on its strategic maneuvering in an increasingly complex ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

A near-death experience in the jungle with armed guerrilla fighters led to one horticulturist creating his dream garden at a ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 14 °F (-10 °C). Cloudy with a high of 29 °F (-1.7 °C) and a 69% chance of precipitation. Winds from ENE ...

Look closer at the Tupolev Tu-154, the Soviet workhorse jet known as "Careless" and affectionately referred to as Tupe.

MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia due to a technical malfunction, local governor Igor Kobzev said on Wednesday.

After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...