Symbolic of the Cold War, the 155-kilometre concrete wall cut the German capital in half and separated its citizens.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death by hanging.

To appease Yunus and his Islamist backers would be no more effective than Carter’s appeasement was toward Khomeini with ...

In 1985, chess great Viktor Korchnoi was persuaded to take on Géza Maróczy. What really set the challenge apart was that the Hungarian grandmaster had died decades earlier.

Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes ...

Russians are seen as either united supporters of the war or as fearful and oppressed. Neither portrayal is true ...

Today in History for Nov. 12: In 1774, British citizens in Quebec protested the Quebec Act which restored French civil law. In 1856, the Grand Trunk Railway was opened from Quebec to Toronto. In 1884, ...

Get ready, skygazers: Another major meteor shower is about to hit its peak in November. The Leonid meteor shower, which first became active at the beginning of November, is due to peak in activity for ...

Cloudy skies on Sunday night may have obscured the sharpest peak of the Leonid meteor shower, but the peak isn't over yet. You have another chance Monday night to take in the spectacle, and clearer ...

The shower is expected to peak on the nights of November 16 and 17, with the best viewing times between midnight and dawn. Viewers can expect to see about three to 15 fast, bright meteors per hour, ...