It is now some three and a half decades since the Soviet Union collapsed. But its past continues to haunt the Left, and its ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

The breakthrough turned him into a hallowed figure, but he later faced professional censure for offensive remarks.

The cosmic violence, the way it mangled Soviet, and then Russian ... By the time Joseph Stalin died in 1953, 20 million Soviets had been through the gulag. About 3 million of them died there, of ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

Former Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Viktor Yakunin has died at the age of 95. This was announced on November 6 by the press ...

Watson co-discover the double-helix structure of DNA, but his reputation was later damaged by his comments on race and sex.

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...

When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945, he was directly responsible for the deaths of more than ten ...

A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in ...