1999 — Team USA wins the Women’s World Cup over China in sudden death. The Americans win 5-4 in penalty kicks, with defender Brandi Chastain kicking in the game winner.

By using a “divide and conquer” strategy to keep Azerbaijan and Armenia under its sphere of influence, Russia caused ...

Recently at the Ukraine Southeast Europe summit, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković reiterated his country’s commitment ...

In 1900, only around 40 nations had capital cities. By 2000, the number grew to more than 200, largely a result of new ...

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration framework needs to put national security ahead of the interests of applicants. That’s among ...

2010 — Paul Goydos becomes the fourth golfer in PGA Tour history to shoot a 59. Goydos puts together his 12-under, bogey-free round on the opening day of the John Deere Classic. Goydos makes the turn ...

Surprising new research purports to show that Scottish people felt British centuries before the Union with England. Isobel Scott is not convinced ...

Since then the Islamic Republic of Iran has vowed to end U.S. imperialism and eradicate Israel. Now, the United States and ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.