Winston Churchill

A cigar once smoked by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has sold for 10,000 euros, according to the Boston-based RR Auction house.
Churchill partially smoked the 4in (10cm) cigar at the Le Bourget Airport in Paris on 11 May 1947.
It was sold on Wednesday night to a collector in Palm Beach, Florida. The buyer’s name was not released.

President Aleksandar Vucic has signed a decree to recall Serbia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Ognjen Pribicevic.

The reason for this has not been officially announced, Tanjug reported on Thursday.

Sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "interpreted" the decree as "a part of standard procedures, as Pribicevic's mandate is expiring this year."

History -- some of it intensely personal -- leant heavily on Christopher Nolan when he was making his wartime epic "Dunkirk," which rolls out in cinemas across the world from July 19.

The English-born director of the "Batman" movies had long dreamt of tackling the story of how a kind of victory was pulled from Britain's worst defeat of World War II.

We Greeks owe a lot to the Percentages Agreement signed in Moscow in 1944 between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, which decreed that the West would have 90 percent of the say in what happened in Greece and the Soviet Union just 10 percent.

By May 1945 the war in Europe had finally started to wind down. Yet for the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, there was one final mission to complete before they were relieved. Due to increasing tensions between them and the USSR, the Western Allies recognized that they had to take as much German territory as they could before the Soviets arrived.

During WWII, the Allies had a ship so jinxed, it destroyed itself by nearly destroying something else. And yes, you read that correctly.

The USS William D. Porter (DD-579) was a Fletcher-class destroyer named in honor of Commodore William D. Porter – a Union officer. Most just called it the “Willie Dee” – which wasn’t meant to be endearing.

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941. The balladeer, artist and actor who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas – had long been tipped as a potential prize recipient.

"The Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives." That quotation is impossible not to recall after hearing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speak in the U.N. Security Council meetings on Sept.

U.S. President Barack Obama has warned a trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. "would not happen any time soon" should the latter leave the EU.

During a press conference with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on April 22, Obama answered questions over the debates around what critics have qualified as an intervention in Britain's EU referendum.

A free map of wine routes in the Bulgarian region of Melnik is seeking to encourage the development of wine tourism in the area.

The map was produced under the initiative of wine producers from the region and is available in both Bulgarian and English, Darik radio informs.