From the froth on one of China's most popular broths to dogs shooting their owners... your weekly roundup of offbeat stories ...

From the froth on one of China's most popular broths to dogs shooting their owners... your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94, says her mission is to keep telling the history she witnessed in 1945 at 14, speaking out on behalf of ...

For a time, the men who helped run Hitler’s war machine lived like kings, tucked away in the snowy mountains of West Virginia. They woke to the scent of fresh linens and the sound of birdsong. They ...

The major story this past week has been the arrest and detention of former president Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court.

In yesterday’s newsletter, Bill quoted Philip Larkin’s “Homage to a Government,” on Britain’s quiet post-WWII retrenchment: ...

Some films portray the time period a lot more precisely than others, and some anime movies capture their time periods very well. A lot of anime movies made in Japan focus on World War II and the ...

The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...

Held in person in the working-class Sydney suburb of Bankstown and streamed on Zoom, the meeting was attended by a broad cross-section of workers, students and young people.

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

According to their description, these photos document the atrocities of the Japanese army during World War II, which are not just painful memories for Marcus' family but also a shared witness to the ...