Berlin experienced a new round of transport strikes on Monday, bringing the German capital's public transit system to a standstill and forcing commuters to seek alternative transportation. The strike, ...

On February 29, 1984, a small town in East Germany witnessed a train disaster hidden by thick fog. Workers at the station never saw it coming. One moment, silence—then, a deafening crash. This is the ...

In recognition of the renaming of Fort Benning as Fort Moore, I provide the following thoughts on adapting retired LTG Moore’s four principles of ...

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It was a journey immortalised by Peter O’Toole in the epic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia – and now four military veterans have ...

Maps show that by 6am, snow will fall from the North of Scotland towards Sheffield, with large parts of Wales seeing snow and ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

As Tate stages the first major exhibition of the surrealist artist, Oliver Smith follows her to the ancient stone circles of Penwith ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

Enniskillenstein or Enniskillenberg? Enniskillen could have been renamed after the common German town suffixes ‘stein’ (stone) or ...

A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said. The ICE train had 291 ...