A motorbike wreck and the remains of two German soldiers have drawn global attention. Low Danube levels in Budapest exposed ...

Roughly 108 years ago today (October 8, 1918, precisely) in the tangled hills of France's Argonne Forest, a 30-year-old American soldier named Alvin Cullum York found himself in the middle of one of ...

The German businessman was obsessed with Homer and determined to find King Priam's city. But his recklessness turned dangerous as he dug for gold.

The corporation, with over 400,000 employees worldwide and revenues of over €90 billion, made a profit of €3.5 billion in ...

Today, the “Paris Gun” and “Schwerer Gustav” cannons are generally seen as wasteful single-use projects that diverted valuable resources away from conventional weapons. But there is more to the story.

After getting her start as a dancer and an actress, Leni Riefenstahl began directing films in the early 1930s. And when she crossed paths with Adolf Hitler, he hand-picked Riefenstahl to document his ...

Residents and researchers are finding historic and prehistoric relics of the past as Europe's second-longest river dries ...

New York is finally finishing the subway line it promised a century ago, and the reason it might actually work this time is a 700-ton German machine that solves the exact problem that left Seattle's ...

A 3,858-ton tunneling machine named Mary is quietly rewriting what infrastructure ambition looks like in Australia, boring a 49-foot-wide tunnel under Adelaide's suburban streets while carrying 20 ...

Picture the largest thing you have ever seen move under its own power. A semi truck hauling a wide load, a container ship sliding under a bridge, a passing locomotive. None of them come close to this.

A massive tunnel boring machine built in Germany by the same company that carved out the Elizabeth line will dig the UK’s longest road tunnel. National Highways started early work on the Lower Thames ...

Germany’s potential game-winning goal was disallowed in their Round of 32 match against Paraguay — and now they’re heading home. Jonathan Tah fired a header past Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill, but ...