There’s something oddly irresistible about places that have been ghosted by humans and left to rot—beautifully. Think of them ...

Europe is riddled with eerie ghost towns, from depopulated military and mining towns and drowned villages to ancient enclaves ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

He’d watched as the Nazis sent first hundreds and then thousands of Jews by train or truck or on foot ... archaeologists had found a large area, overgrown with foliage, that looked as if it ...

Russia's deployment of T-62M tanks in Ukraine has raised eyebrows, with many questioning whether this aging platform still ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear-powered Arctic land train, the TES-3, designed to supply mobile power across remote Siberia. Built on a modified heavy tank chassis, the train ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

But something about its overgrown garden spoke to them ... or what occurred there during the war, when Soviet forces held the city under a brutal siege; or even what became of the house during ...

“Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through. Image Guests arriving for a trip on the Blue Train are welcomed in style at the Cape Town train station. The entire experience is meant to ...

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways. The funding cuts could lead to a decline in the number of independent ...

Ukraine gave the nukes back to Russia. They weren’t Ukraine’s. This is an uncomfortable fact.” After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, ...

Controversial plans to put eight homes on "overgrown" land behind a residential street have been given the go ahead for a second time. The plot lies behind Garendon Road, in Shepshed, with ...