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Austrias chancellor Christian Kern lays a wreath during remembrance day ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Sirens, silence as Israel remembers Holocaust

Drivers exited their cars and buses ground to a halt, while students at schools marked the two minutes of silence.

25 April 2017 2:52 AM IST

Pilar Maria Guerrieri

Book traces Delhi's journey through maps

The book touches on aspects like the seige of Delhi, structures during World War II, key memorials and marketplaces.

23 Jun 2017 3:50 AM IST

The ceremony began with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. in honour of those who lost their lives the same time the attack began. (Photo: AP)

On its 76th anniversary, Pearl Harbor survivors remember fellow...

About 20 survivors attended the event at a grassy spot overlooking the harbour and the USS Arizona Memorial.

8 Dec 2017 5:13 PM IST

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and visiting President Andrzej Duda of Poland laid flowers on Wednesday at a monument to Polish soldiers killed by Soviet security forces in 1940. (Photo: AFP)

Ukraine, Poland meet, attempt to end post-WWII hostility

Introducing peacekeepers will bring an end to armed conflict between Ukranians and Russians,' says visiting President...

14 Dec 2017 1:31 PM IST

A photo of Anne Frank at the opening of the exhibition: Anne Frank, a History for Today , at the Westerbork Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands. (Photo: AP)

Anne Frank caught by chance', not betrayed?

The August 1944 police raid in which Frank was arrested may have been staged to investigate illegal activity.

18 Dec 2016 5:56 AM IST

Several in German city of Augsburg will have to leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton aerial bomb from World War II. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

On Christmas morning, Germans leave homes as WW II bomb is defused

German city of Augsburg's medieval cathedral and City Hall are in the area to be sealed off.

25 Dec 2016 12:03 PM IST

US President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)

2016: Looking back in anger

Globalisation has meant the export of capital to places where the labour force is the cheapest to train and employ.

24 Dec 2016 5:06 AM IST

Prince Charles (Photo: AFP)

Prince Charles: Dark days' of 1930s returning

We owe it to those who suffered and died so horribly not to repeat the horrors of the past, says Prince Charles.

23 Dec 2016 3:09 AM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel address the media during a joint news conference with the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Merkel: Europe's face of liberalism

Angela Merkel has relied on common sense, rather than charisma, to build her enviable reputation as a safe pair of...

5 Dec 2016 12:57 AM IST

Vladimir Putin, Russia President

Vladimir Putin to meet Japan PM on disputed islands

Mr Putin's two-day trip, including a forum in Tokyo, has been long in the pipeline and follows two visits by Mr Abe to...

14 Dec 2016 6:22 AM IST