In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory – a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

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Iran and several other nations also present at military show of force, held at a time of heightened global tensions.

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Ask hedge fund manager Dmitry Balyasny what keeps him up at night, and the answer isn’t a long list of worries about fund ...

British ambassador Peter Mendelson is fired the same week as 10 new ambassadors present their credentials in a White House ...

It was May 1945, and the war in Europe was finally over. Hitler was dead, Nazi Germany had surrendered, the death camps were liberated and millions of people across the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has explained that when he arrived in Alaska wearing a sweater that appeared to have "USSR" written on it, he did not mean that Russia wants to restore the ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The provision of social welfare and the shape of the Soviet city profoundly influenced each other, especially in the post-Stalin period. This article explores the relationship between welfare and city ...