On Jan. 18, 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor.

Denmark and Prussia fought because of the Schleswig Holstein question, a messy dispute over who should control the duchies and whether they belonged with Denmark or the German Confederation. Ethnic ...

As the Red Army surged into East Prussia in late 1944 German civilians faced a desperate flight through snow forests and frozen rivers. This episode follows the first wave of refugees as front lines ...

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A surfer was bitten by a shark in waters off Sydney on Monday evening, the second person to suffer critical ...

A NEW party logo proposed by the UK Independence Party (Ukip) has been slammed for being strikingly similar to a Nazi symbol.

Ukip rejects criticism over new ‘concerning’ logo likened to Nazi symbol - The party has submitted a new logo to replace ...

A lone counter protester was present at the King of Prussia intersection, wearing an ICE sweatshirt and waving a “Rednecks ...

On Jan. 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The two would divorce less than a year later.

As an initiative redistributes a bumper surplus of spuds, here's a look at the Germans' great love affair with the potato.