A London court has finally put to rest one of the many disputes between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan. It goes back 71 years, to just after the partition of British colonial India into two independent states, India and Pakistan. At the time, the region was dotted with princely fiefdoms …
A group of Holocaust survivors and their families gather in Prague’s Old Town Square to recreate a photo that was taken in 1945, when the survivors had just been liberated from Nazi concentration camps. The survivors were part of a group of children flown to the UK to start new …
When half a dozen police officers raided a Mafia-run gay bar on a hot New York night 50 years ago, little did they know their actions would spark a movement that reshaped the lives of generations to come. Mark didn’t throw a brick that night. And he didn’t confront a …
Most of the men in the first wave never stood a chance. In the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, thousands of American soldiers crawled down swaying cargo nets and thudded into steel landing craft bound for the Normandy coast. Their senses were soon choked with the smells of wet canvas …
Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, historical officials said Wednesday. Remains of the Gulf schooner Clotilda were identified and verified near Mobile after months of assessment, …
Japan’s emperor bypassed the government by asking the people to endorse his departure. TOKYO — The emperor of Japan, Akihito, abdicated on Tuesday, paving the way for his son Naruhito to take the throne on Wednesday. His decision is widely being described as a break from a 200-year tradition. In fact, it is a …
NEW DELHI — Winston Churchill called the 1919 massacre of Indian protesters “monstrous.” Queen Elizabeth said it was “distressing.” Prime Minister David Cameron went with “deeply shameful.” But did they apologize? Not exactly. British leaders have always stopped short of making an apology for the bloodshed at Jallianwala Bagh, a walled …
As she stepped toward the bouquet of microphones, she closed her eyes — as if to echo the words of the man who had just introduced her by saying, “Genius, like justice, is blind.” She breathed in and began: “My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty …” The …
The 18th Century Polish-American general Casimir Pulaski was either female or intersex, researchers say. Pulaski, a nobleman who joined George Washington’s army and fought British troops in 1777, is considered a war hero in both Poland and the US. Scientists first found that Pulaski’s skeleton had female characteristics about 20 …
Italian police have detained a British woman suspected of removing some small Roman tiles from a mosaic at Pompeii. Italian media say she was spotted cutting tiles – called tesserae – from a floor mosaic in the world-famous site’s House of the Anchor. She was with her father and sister at …
It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she has discovered testimony from someone who may have lived even longer — a woman named Redoshi. The …
Pope Francis announced on Monday that he will open up the Vatican’s secret archives on the papacy of Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of failing to speak up about the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews. Historians have for decades been calling on the Holy See to let scholars …
