U.S. Congressman Abraham Hamadeh made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country's interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was taken hostage and later ...

June 1990. The Soviets were about to do it again. Not since Sputnik had they so dramatically outpaced the West. They were ...

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Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian ...

Residents and politicians in Armenia and Azerbaijan are responding with cautious hope after their leaders signed a ...

On August 9, 1950, Alexander John "Al" Lilly became the first Canadian to break the sound barrier, piloting a Canadair F-86 ...

The Guardian reports that researchers have developed a new method to reduce the "tunnel boom" effect that occurs when ...

Tailevu North College has booked their place in the Vodafone Deans Under-19 semifinals after a narrow 18–17 victory over Naitasiri Secondary School in a closely fought quarterfinal at Prince Charles ...

If you have managed to grab tickets to the Imperial War Museum Duxford's next flying event, here are all of the aircraft set ...

Wings: A History of Aviation From Kites to the Space Age, by Tom D. Crouch ...