Charles Edward died of cancer in his flat in Coburg in 1954 at the age of 69. He was described as a "penniless criminal" in one report and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery near one of his former ...

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 ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...

Observing the tussle for Greenland, it is hard not to recall Karl Marx’s aphorism that history repeats itself “the first time ...

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

In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was ...

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

Mockery came in thick and fast. “Given UKIP was founded on 3 September 1993 by Professor Alan Sked, it can hardly call itself ...

The steam engine still drives the economy in Germany. In areas where there were particularly large numbers of steam engines at the end of the 19th century, average wages are still more than 4 per cent ...

Ukip sparked backlash after unveiling a new logo critics say echoes Nazi imagery, a claim the far-right party denies as it ...

Sunder Katwala, the director of the British Future think tank, wrote on BlueSky: “Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan ...