Cold War

On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city's western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed wandered along the internal edges of the divided city. In those uncerta…

When the Berlin Wall was pierced on 9 November 1989, world attention was on Europe. But the collapse of the Soviet Union that followed resonated across Africa and globally. The 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on these forces and their implic…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is expected to vote for the first time against an annual U.N. resolution on Thursday condemning the U.S. economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, two people in the Brazilian government told Reuters. The policy shift represents the…

PodcastsNov 5, 2019John Lewis Gaddis , Elmira BayrasliThirty years ago this week, the world watched in awe as thousands brought down the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today, however, democracy is in crisis, and authoritarian…

TORONTO – Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymen…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Actors have impersonated US soldiers at the site for nearly 20 years Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War cros…

TORONTO Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymenopt…

In 1911, the San Francisco Examiner published a guide titled: How to Make Really Funny Jokes. According to author Professor Korski, a true joke is a very pleasant absurdity contrasting with ones habitual expectation. A joke does not merely cause laughter. Fal…

Key point: A Cold War warrior has found a new niche. Huge yet surprisingly sleek and agile, the U.S. Air Forces B-1 Lancer strategic bomberspopularly dubbed Bones for B-ONEcircles over battlefields in Syria and Afghanistan like angels of death dispensing GPS…

The Stasis main job was spying on ordinary people who were not in line with party policies and values, hauntingly depicted in the 2006 German film The Lives of Others. The Stasi Museum is in the agencys former headquarters in Lichtenberg. The three floors hol…