The festivities were marked by fireworks and flag waving across the country

A new exhibition has opened along an old section of the Berlin Wall. “Beyond the Wall” features images of soldiers patrolling the once deadly

In a vast network of tunnels carved into the rocks under the Maltese capital Valletta, faded maps of the Mediterranean hint at the island’s role in

The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat, returned to Boston’s waters late on Sunday. Crowds gathered to watch as

Divers from a joint Greek-American project discovered eight new shipwrecks off the Greek Fourni islands back in June.

Eight people were taken to hospital after being injured in a bull run in Spain. Two runners were gored and six others had to be treated for

3D imaging technology and forensics archaeology used to reveal face from Peru's ancient past

Austrian court upholds compulsary purchase order on Hitler's birthplace

Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut and first man to walk in space describes what it was like to be the first to drift free in the empty ocean of space around him.

Behind a secret door concealed behind a sliding bookcase in a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentinian police discovered a huge hoard of Nazi relics, some

Kohl overcame resistance to reunification from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher who feared the return of a powerful, united Germany.

Archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in a complex of catacombs in Minya province, the first discovery of its kind since 1950

Historian Jean-Pierre Rioux is a specialist commentator on France's political, cultural and social past.

Hundreds of people have been reenacting a famous 5th of May battle, when Mexican troops defeated the French army.

It was meant to have been open in 2014, but now the House of European History finally opens its doors to the public this weekend.

On April 26, 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by German bombs