Olympic fans may know that Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games in 1956, but less well known is an event that was held ...

Top 10: Surprisingly successful planes of World War 2 ...

After World War II, Germany and Japan faced massive war crimes trials, but Italy did not. Despite documented atrocities in ...

In our next episode of War Factories, learn how Fiat didn't just make cars, but also made trains, planes and, like modern-day ...

The U.S. Army posthumously promoted seven Japanese American World War II soldiers during a commissioning ceremony in Honolulu ...

German artist Anselm Kiefer pays tribute to forgotten women of proto-science with his exhibition, "The Women Alchemists." The show, previewed on Tuesday, is part of the city's cultural program for ...

This will be the Italians’ fourth go-around on sports’ biggest stage.

The protest in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named for the date of Italy’s liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945, drew people ...

How these two underdogs, Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik, became U.S. Olympians is absolutely wild. It’s a story of an unlikely pairing in Novi.

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Officials are trying to find out how a religious artwork came to take on striking likeness to the Italian prime minister.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ethelene Whitmire about her book, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram," about a queer American ...