After losing in 1945 Winston Churchill continued to scrutinize world affairs and speak out against Soviet expansionism.

The work of US historian Bruce Cumings offers a full and fair understanding of what went before June 25 1950, and what came later. While US combat forces had exited the South in 1949, financial ...

The 56-member Commonwealth might even succeed in devising a peace formula for a West Asia whose warring entities -- Palestine ...

This unravelling was accelerated by domestic and colonial unrest. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946—spanning ...

Israel’s announcement of its “humanitarian city” in Gaza stirs up unsettling, traumatic and barbaric images of concentration ...

India was to be a predominantly Hindu country while Pakistan was to have a Muslim population. The partition of the British ...

On July 5 1945 the United Kingdom went to the polls. To include the votes of servicemen serving overseas, the result was not ...

The race to 7,000 Test runs has seen three legends of Test cricket reach the milestone in 138 innings. But which Australian ...

The group bombed the British Embassy in Rome in October 1946 and, two years later, after the creation of the Zionist state, ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near ...