Churchill was a prolific weeper and Obama’s propensity to cry in public did him no harm. If only Rachel Reeves were offered ...

On April 20, 1937, Berlin-based journalist William L. Shirer made this entry in his diary: “Hitler’s birthday. He gets more ...

The prayer, also known as the Our Father, also appeared better known than a famous line from Star Wars, the words of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and Liverpool football anthem You’ll Never ...

U.S. barrage of Iran’s nuclear sites and apparent ceasefire may be the end of the conflict - or just the end of the beginning ...

American and British leaders were slow to share their growing knowledge of the Nazi campaign against Jews. Both strategy and ...

THE GATHERING STORM (784 pp.)—Winston Churchill—Houghton Mifflin ($6). From the fall of France on through World War II, Winston Churchill was a symbol of the reserve strength of the ...

OceanGate’s Titan – an experimental, five‑seat submersible built with carbon‑fiber and titanium – drops into the North Atlantic on an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic, but implodes, killing ...

In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s ...

This 36-room mansion sits on what used to be the main road between New York City and Albany. Washington Irving cranked out ...

Winston Churchill's talismanic speech about the onset of the cold war has been made available as an online educational resource. Delivered in Fulton, Missouri in 1946, it spelt out the deepening ...

Winston Churchill's irritation at the lack of a "wonder drug" to treat casualties of the D-Day landings have been laid bare in new documents. By Conor Wilson, News Reporter ...

Winston Churchill's push to obtain penicillin in time to treat casualties expected from D-Day has come to light in documents seen by BBC News. Official papers unearthed by the National Archives ...