The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

The War Department may be back, but the semi-accommodationist policies of the subsequent 72 years remain in place.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In his memoir, The World of Yesterday, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig looked back on Europe before the First World War. That was, he wrote, the Golden Age of ...

EADaily, September 11th, 2025. Let's start with the long—known: "A ghost haunts Europe - the ghost of communism." Actually, ...

The jet boasted a top speed of approximately 540 miles per hour, far surpassing the fastest Allied piston-engine fighters. There can be little doubt that, at least when the Second World War began, ...

September 16 is the 110th anniversary of the foundation of the Women’s Institute (WI) in the United Kingdom. Today we look at the history of ...

As the Catholic world prepares for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Christianity buffs are looking at an eerie precedent in the history of papal deaths happening just on the onset of major ...

On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, ...

Military capability of Western alliance remains 'formidable' despite questions around untested 'mutual assistance' agreement ...

KHARTOUM - When journalist Shamael Elnoor left Sudan at the outbreak of war in 2023, Sudanese newspapers were already ...

Last week saw two anniversaries that are linked by the Belfast deserter who shot the Second World War. One received no coverage and the other flooded the media. However, the storyline of the forgotten ...

Russia bombed Ukraine’s main government building for the first time in the largest overnight aerial attacks since the ...