Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

In a little-known WWII campaign, Japan sent bomb-laden balloons across the Pacific. Some made it—and caused deadly ...

On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Age, with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on ...

A son, a daughter and a grandson of Australian servicemen exposed to nuclear testing have made an emotional pilgrimage up to the remote Montebello Islands to capture details of an era with – literally ...

History routinely affords illuminating insights on existential challenges which have confronted humanity. Apprehending that ...

Switzerland, the European Union and 23 other countries have sharply criticised the "unfolding famine" situation in Gaza and called for urgent action.

Having pulled out of Cincinnati (wisely, but another item in the bill of particulars against this summer schedule), Mboko now enters the U.S. Open as a seed, a player on a win streak and, above all, a ...

DONALD Trump and Vladimir Putin’s historic one-on-one meeting will be a “listening exercise”, the White House has said.

The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It needs also to wake ...