The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...

Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...