64 years ago, in the early hours of Aug 13, East Germans awoke to barbed wire and barricades after the Berlin Wall was ...

I remember the Nineties, at least the bits that I’ve not forgotten due to all the booze. And I remember them as being ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...

The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would have loved ...

Iconic Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone reached a new milestone during her participation in the 400-meter race in Tokyo on ...

Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis can serve as inspirations to today’s young men.

In the early 1980s, before the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union was on a quest to develop a fifth-generation aircraft ...

Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste ...

The Australian drama is back! The third of final season of The Newsreader will be back on our screens tonight (Thursday 11th ...

Germany is a land of contrasts, with a difficult past. Rich in Christian history, the nation was the focal point of the Reformation in 1517 and the seedbed of influential ...

A decades-old world record once thought to be untouchable suddenly appears to be in serious jeopardy. On a rain-soaked track ...

The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own ...