The title of the oldest person ever is held by French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122 years 164 days, according to ...

David Wood never set out to study evolutionary science — let alone reinterpret one of the world’s most iconic military texts.

Throngs of dachshunds strut their stubby stuff in Hungary on Thursday as they tried to fetch a record for the country's biggest ever single-breed dog walk.

In his biting, timely new historical novel, "The Director," Daniel Kehlmann investigates complicity through the true story of ...

Tim Bouverie's 'old-fashioned diplomatic history' explores the often fraught relationship between world powers ...

Plus “The Deserters” by Mathias Énard and “Glass Century” by Ross Barkan.

The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is the subject of a film that honors her bravery.

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Ono Lennon and his fellow creators of the Oscar-winning animated short film “War Is Over! Inspired by ...

Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of “The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic ...

The U.S. military has often found itself facing the full power of nature’s arsenal.