La prohibition américaine, une aubaine française

A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.

Race tracks are places of longing. But only the Nürburgring in the Eifel is truly spectacular and idyllic at the same time. Loved by fans,...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

On 28 January 1901 the great musician Giuseppe Verdi died from the consequences of a stroke that had struck him six days earlier. These very rare...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The thirteen-panel artwork "The...

Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist, has been excavating the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo, for several decades. He hopes to...

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.