7+ hour, 35+ min ago   (537+ words) The German far-right party AfD has taken a commanding lead in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt vote, but could not secure enough seats to form a majority. Final results showed AfD receiving 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1341+ words) The realization brought Qwynn Galloway-Salazar to tears. She was looking for civilian work two decades ago after leaving the Army Reserves, but what she saw was the disconnect between her and the panel of interviewers. As a Black woman, she…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (699+ words) OSLO: Norway opened a new chapter in its history on Saturday under King Haakon VIII, after the death of his father Harald, a unifying figure who was on the throne for 35 years. A national period of mourning was declared in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (416+ words) For generations of Americans, the sharpened No. 2 pencil has long symbolized youth and growing up. Still a staple of back-to-school shopping lists, it helps children trace their initial letters, erase their mistakes and doodle in the margins during moments of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (922+ words) Since then it has fascinated archaeologists, historians and military-history enthusiasts. It is extremely rare anywhere in the world for a relic from the past to surface in such condition. The German motorcycle draws attention to the period when almost 100,000 German…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (377+ words) Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the four islands Japan claims as its own for the first time on Thursday, prompting a "strong" protest from Tokyo. Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by tensions over the contested islands, known in Japan…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (827+ words) The unusually low water level of the Danube in Budapest has revealed relics that had remained hidden on the riverbed for more than 80 years. Among the discoveries are the remains of two German soldiers from the Second World War, their…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (200+ words) Newswav Drought on Serbia's Sava River reveals long-lost WWII shipwreck Trusted news from Europe’s newsroom Recent heatwaves and severe droughts across Europe have caused river levels to fall sharply, bringing long-hidden traces of the continent’s past to the surface. On…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (960+ words) For a few hours last week, the volcanic island of Iturup became the stage for a confrontation that had been decades in the making. Vladimir Putin, accompanied by the governor of the Sakhalin region, toured a fish-processing complex, a hospital…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (584+ words) Sanae Takaichi avoided visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo despite past pledges to visit the monument on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender during World War II. The shrine honours some 2.4 million people, including 14 war criminals, who died for the…...