Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

A supporter holds a flag showing Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at an election rally, Kampala, Uganda, 16 February 2016 ...

The Bella 1 had been tailed by a US Coast Guard cutter across the Atlantic Ocean for almost two weeks when the ship’s crew ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

While exploring a shallow creek, I spotted a European crayfish (Astacus astacus) slowly moving over the rocks. Its shell ...

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Cristiano Ronaldo pledged that would not retire until scoring the 1,000th goal of his professional career, insisting that he “wants to keep going” wherever that feverish desire may take him. The ...

The NBA and FIBA on Monday announced a major step forward for their planned European basketball league. In January, they will begin reaching out to prospective teams and ownership groups about the ...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced on Monday, in an official statement, that they will move forward in January with their “joint ...

NBA and FIBA reveal plans to engage European teams and owners, paving the way for a new professional basketball league. The announcement confirms that both organizations will move forward with a joint ...

One day after the Czech Republic’s new parliamentary speaker, Tomio Okamura, oversaw the removal of a Ukrainian flag from the Czech parliament building complex, eight more flags have appeared in its ...

To be a European is to have learned from history that what starts off as patriotic fervour can, under the wrong kind of pressure, curdle into something far uglier. Most Europeans thus treat the flags ...