International Red Cross founder and Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant is born in Geneva. He was also a founder of the YMCA.

The writer veered from 1960s radical firebrand to becoming an ideological touchstone for the Trump administration on such ...

His political advocacy took him to London, where he worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and befriended the Polish Marxist ... death of his friend Betty Van Patter, a White woman ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin refuses to recognise the German surrender document, signed a day earlier. At the second ceremony, ...

The conflict swallowed up a massive volume of cultural objects—paintings by Vermeer, van Gogh, Rembrandt ... silver from Polish churches, cases of Islamic ceramics, a stash of antique arms ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere after a failed Venus mission. While Russian authorities indicated it fell into the ...

Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Shutterstock Supported by By Nadia Drake After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...