When my Polish great-grandfather was arrested for defying the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he took two things with him: his ...

In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky look at Supreme Court decisions that, in ...

The inaugural address also included a futuristic twist on a 19th-century nostrum, "manifest destiny" - the belief, ...

1995: British-born Nicholas Ingram is executed in the electric chair at Jackson State Prison, Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1983 murder of a man during a robbery. On the same day, Oliver McCall defeats ...

While a number of central and northern German states eventually adopted constitutions, Prussia and Austria rejected the introduction of constitutions for their sovereign territories until 1848. Only ...

At the end of the 19th century, the fates of two crown princes and their empires, Rudolf of Austria and Wilhelm of Prussia, get linked to each other.

They blamed Germany's political fragmentation for the situation and criticised Prussia, Austria and the German Confederation for being unable or unwilling to respond to the demands of the people. Only ...

Austria has closed off two dozen border crossings with its neighbours, Hungary and Slovakia, in a bid to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease and prevent it from entering the country.

The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been ...

In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...

Austria has closed 24 border crossings in a bid to stem a disease outbreak in two neighbouring countries. Hungary and Slovakia have both declared emergency situations after detecting foot-and ...