In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II.

Plenty of real castles could pass for fantasy illustrations, but their stories are far more layered than anything in fiction.

More than a week after thousands of homes were inundated up and down the Mid North Coast, a squad of 25 volunteer ...

Ireland has shown due respect to a giant of its history, Daniel O’Connell, with the 55m O’Connell Tower in Glasnevin cemetery ...

Here lie the mortal remains of Mary O’Connell in a tomb of cracking stone slabs and invading weeds. The words inscribed on ...

A new and “terrifying” phase of warfare is unfolding in Ukraine with Russia’s deployment of advanced fiber optic drones.

The local authorities have dusted off Cold War-era bomb shelters, installed a new satellite communications system and are working with the military on plans to help a deployment of Western forces ...

He targets Tucson with three 800-kiloton nuclear warheads, each roughly 44 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Two would explode at ground level at Davis-Monthan Air ...

The BBC reports from Donetsk where swarms of fibre optic drones give Russia the edge as Ukraine defends towns behind the ...

In an age of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nation's most ambitious fallout-shelter plan, featuring an ...