Finally, the combined losses of credit, shipping and markets caused the total volume of world trade to plummet. It took years ...

A lone incident of violence took place on 28th June 1914, which would mark the point from which world history would take an ...

Despite initial mandate to stay neutral, U.S. leaders voted to officially join Allies in the Great War on April 6, 1917.

More dan one month into di conflict, pipo dey fear, odas dey show concern ova weda e fit scata into ogbonge war.

This is a Short History Of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins ...

It is said that ‘history repeats itself’ and it is also said that ‘when we forget history, geography is altered’.  While exact events do not repeat in identical form but similar conditions often ...

All through history, assassination has been resorted to by the power-hungry and the aggrieved. It has been used in palace power struggles, as a tool to further a political cause, or to redress a ...

He has made clear his expectation for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Unfortunately, he did not get the nod from the five-member Norwegian committee. After the selection was made, Donald Trump sent ...

History often turns on moments that seem small, even accidental. On June 28, 1914, in the city of Sarajevo, a wrong turn placed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria directly in front of a young Bosnian ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Yes. The archduke referred to in Rajiv Joseph's play, “Archduke,” is Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, at the hands of 19-year-old ...

Having ignited one world war, Franz Ferdinand is becoming embroiled in another escalating conflict. On Saturday, Alex Kapranos, frontman of the Glasgow band that took its name from the Austrian ...

The band Franz Ferdinand has angrily hit back after the Israeli Defence Forces used their song Take Me Out in a propaganda video posted on social media. The video shows fighter jets and explosions as ...