Marilyn Monroe hoped to marry JFK: book Marilyn Monroe, who notoriously had an affair with John F. Kennedy, apparently believed she was going to marry the president.
07 August 2013 18:10
Rome diverts traffic to protect Colosseum The city of Rome from Saturday barred private vehicles from using the main road to the Colosseum in order to protect the iconic monument that has been blackened by pollution and is in a poor state.
05 August 2013 01:38
Russian war games play on former US aircraft carrier Russian video game publisher 1C Company boarded a former US aircraft carrier to re-write the Cuban Missile Crisis that had super powers on the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia sparks global outrage From a painting hung high on a blood-red wall, Adolf Hitler peers down on young students eating schnitzel and slurping German beer in Indonesia's Nazi-themed cafe.
Cambodian jungle graveyard mystifies experts Over a hundred "burial jars" and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in remote Cambodian jungle have for centuries held the bones -- and secrets -- of a mysterious people who lived alongside with the Angkor era.
Spy marketing: CIA rolls out 'new and improved website' The CIA prides itself on secrecy but the spy agency unveiled a revamped website Monday that promises a user-friendly layout and a "sleeker, more modern web experience."
Berlin rebuilds palace destroyed by Allies, communists Berlin Wednesday kicks off the reconstruction of its palace, a divisive 590-million-euro ($783 million) project to recreate the baroque architectural jewel whose post-war remnants were razed by communist leaders.
Bosnia youth honour victims of Prijedor camps Hundreds of youth gathered Friday to mark the 1992 ethnic cleansing against non-Serbs in Prijedor, one of the deadliest episodes of the Bosnian war.
03 June 2013 10:01
Eureka! Unique exhibition in Rome honours Archimedes The great inventor of Antiquity, Archimedes, is the star of an unprecedented exhibition opening in Rome which includes modern applications of some of his best known discoveries.
Family album of last tsar surfaces in Russian museum Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia's last tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album which has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum.
11 May 2013 12:34
Russia flexes military muscle on Victory Day Fighter jets screamed over Red Square and heavy tanks rumbled over its cobblestones Thursday as Russia flexed its military muscle on the anniversary of its costly victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
Obama, ex-presidents praise 'resolute' Bush President Barack Obama lauded George W. Bush Thursday as resolute in the face of terrorism, putting ideology aside at the opening of a library which makes his predecessor's case for history.
26 April 2013 18:40
Spanish government in new bid to revive economy Spain's government, seeking to cut its deficit amidst a double-dip recession, is to unveil new measures Friday aimed at reviving the economy, a day after registering record unemployment.
