This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the ...

The heroism of a Dumfriesshire farmer’s daughter was remembered for Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...

At the Angel Island Immigration Station in California, some Asian-Americans are learning their family’s painful history for ...

Best known for her gravelly voice and sultry image, the singer and actress and former associate of the Rolling Stones has ...

Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London’s Swinging Sixties who survived addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and Covid-19, has died at the age of 78, after a singing career that began as a ...

The convent-educated daughter of a World War II British intelligence officer ... they wrote a note on the chart at the bottom of her bed recommending “palliative care only.” ...

I bet when you think of Tokyo, you imagine crowded streets of neon signs flanked by huge skyscrapers — which is why it's wild ...

Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Prisoners, a twisty thriller by ... Set in the aftermath of World War II in Japan, Godzilla Minus One shows how a country at its lowest point is forced ...

The Ukrainian special-forces team closed in on the North Korean lying alone and injured in a forest in Russia’s Kursk region. Spotting the Ukrainians, the young soldier brandished a hand grenade ...

Robert Oppenheimer as he helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II, and was later haunted ... reimagining the brutal enslavement of Allied prisoners forced to build the Burma ...

She spent time in prison and on hunger strike during this period and devoted her energies to writing and educating her fellow women prisoners ... in London during World War II, and wrote about ...