Known as the first true world war, the Seven Years' War reshaped global power across Europe, North America, and beyond. In ...

But for one moment in 1914, there came a Christmas miracle. The soldiers in the trenches stopped fighting, and for a moment, ...

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Seeking to reclaim lost influence, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I only to face devastating defeats from the Caucasus to the Middle East and the Balkans. This video examines how outdated ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

The best parts of the “Ocean's Eleven” movies aren't the big heists. “The Choral” is a very gentle, very British movie about ...

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as ...

A northern English town loses its best choral singers to fighting in World War I but finds new hope in a time of loss through music in Nicholas Hytner's new film "The Choral," featuring Ralph Fiennes.

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...