Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist ...

Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist dominoes ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the failed mission Kosmos-482. The Pioneer and Voyager probes the United States sent ...

Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler did not agree on many things. They were ideological opposites and staunch enemies - serving on opposing sides in World War One before leading their countries in ...

In the spring of 1945, eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler's "Third Reich" finally collapsed, and the world took a collective breath, turning a battered but hopeful page in history. After years of ...

We had to stem the tide, so we held our noses and recruited ex-Nazis to help us build rockets, reconstruct Europe and foment anti-Soviet rebellion behind the Iron Curtain, the argument went.

It was afraid to look back. The sky had drowned in the Dal lake; it was now a river of fire. A terrible beast with an alligator’s body and a thousand dragon-faces emerged from the sparkling lake ...