Joan Mabel Harrison served in the British Army’s women’s branch during World War II and stands out in old photographs, surrounded by her male comrades. Though no longer as physically strong as she ...

This article was originally published by ProPublica , a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.Elon Musk's aerospace ...

A Chinese Communist Party work report last week dropped its usual reference to China's "peaceful" unification with Taiwan.

The Lisbon Maru was a cargo vessel that had been requisitioned by the Japanese army 83 years ago, to transport more than 1,800 British prisoners of war from Hong Kong to Japan. The unmarked ship ...

Major global stock markets suffered another difficult day Friday, with heightened concerns over the potential fallout from US ...

In 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin. In 1812, the U.S. government authorized the issue of America's ...

Around 100 families and friends of the survivors of the Lisbon Maru gathered at a special event in London on Saturday held by ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the newspaper claimed the virus originated in a US army research centre in ... a backdrop of increased control of Hong Kong, including the imprisonment and solitary ...

A German Jewish refugee, he had arrived in the United States as a teenager, volunteered for the Army to fight Hitler ... CIA station chief in Berlin and Hong Kong, where he gathered crucial ...

On the front line, where Ukraine is struggling to fend off the much larger and better-equipped Russian army, another soldier said the US ... The purpose for giving Hong Kong and Macau residents more ...