On Dec. 16, 2014, Taliban militants attacked a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing more than 140 people, mostly children.

Adding to the agony of the victims of Japanese military atrocities and their families in Asia and other places, Japanese ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet ...

The world watched in shock as Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne on 1936. The decision came when it became clear ...

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the ...

In Pottersville, homeless addicts like Mr. Gower and nonconformist “pixies” like Clarence are scorned and ostracized, then booted out of the local watering hole. In Pottersville, cops arrest people ...

“The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of law,” she wrote to her friend and fellow philosopher Karl Jaspers. “This guilt, in contrast to all criminal guilt, oversteps and shatters any ...

The real-life Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of World War II have long provided fodder for film. Judgment at Nuremberg is the most famous cinematic attempt. That 1961 movie starred Spencer Tracy, ...

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Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on December 11. Check what ...

NUERNBERG—Stroll into the justice palace in this beautiful city in Mittelfranken, ask to see Courtroom 600, and the nice, polite man at the reception desk will probably decline. “Unfortunately not,” ...