FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...

In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Michelle Goldberg ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

1966: The Government announces that a Fast Reactor will be built at Dounreay power station in Scotland. On the same day, singer/actress Sophie Tucker dies aged 79. 1967: Canadian conductor Percy Faith ...

This provoked KGB chief Yuri Andropov to make more martyrs out of the organization’s members by leading another harsh crackdown on human rights activists—a repression that in turn contributed ...

Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, Aleksandra Kosygina was initially working with KGB Agent Yuri Andropov to help Tarasenko pose as the captain of the stranded submarine as a cover to prevent the Swede ...

In 249, legends say the woman who later became St. Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry, was tortured and killed for being a Christian. Her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points and ...