In an editorial last Saturday the conservative Le Figaro described France as “an airplane without wings or a pilot, ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

The US government shutdown entered its 35th day on Tuesday, matching a record set during President Donald Trump's first term, ...

The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered ...

With such weighty traditions and meaty plotlines, the Ashes must rank highly among the big beasts of British sport. Turn in a ...

This military megaproject took 10 years to build and fell in just over a month. The Maginot Line spans over 700 km, featuring ...

On Oct. 21, Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former French president to walk through a prison gate to begin serving a ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all ...

Mixing historic anecdotes and regret over his own scandals, Spain's exiled king Juan Carlos I seeks to reconcile himself with his family and nation in newly-published memoirs that offer dramatic ...

The good news for the French police is that three of the four people suspected of carrying off the ‘heist of the century’ at ...

Some food traditions are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African American chefs have largely been ...