Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin will have a memoir out this fall, looking back on a momentous four years in ...

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

The concert as a whole demonstrated the astonishing range of George Gershwin’s music—from the Broadway musical stage to the ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

was the sixth son and youngest child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia by his first wife, Empress Maria Alexandrovna. He was a brother of Emperor Alexander III and uncle of Nicholas II, Russia's last ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.