Fields of sunflowers are now a common sight all over the world – but this has only been the case relatively recently.
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Made up almost entirely of West Germans, the roster of Germany's national soccer team reflects divisions that remain almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A flavor of diplomacy that focuses on science cuts through political differences and finds new ways for nations to work together.
The cartoon-turned-Broadway sensation is set in a place named after the Bikini islands, which has a dark history of forced removal and exile of native people from their land.
Here are three lessons that former FBI Director James Comey, took from the 20th-century American Christian philosopher, Reinhold Niebuhr.
The lack of Commonwealth relevance doesn’t entirely explain the lack of exuberance of the medal tally.
The crisis over alleged Russian involvement in a murder attempt on a spy and his daughter in the UK has been called an extension of the Cold War. But that war was about ideology; this crisis isn't.
Clive Hamilton’s book is perhaps a useful reminder that we must not be naïve about our relationship with China, but his prescription is the wrong direction for tackling the genuine issues he raises.
U.S. President Donald Trump has exempted Canada, for now, from hefty tariffs on steel. An increase in defence spending would likely stand Canada in greater stead with the president.
During the Cold War, the US built nuclear weapons at a network of secretive sites across the nation. Some are still heavily polluted and threaten public health today.
President Trump claims that America is a nation based in faith. A scholar says, it's more complicated.
As tensions between the US and Russia escalate, both sides are developing technological capabilities, including artificial intelligence that could be used in conflict.
In 1985 The Junkyard Band shifted the paradigm by challenging Reaganomics. Many of those same key issues still rage on today, across the world.
In what came to be known as the Thule incident, an American bomber crashed in Greenland, spreading radioactive wreckage across 3 square miles of a frozen fjord. Denmark was not happy.
Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
The New York Pop artist who turned dots into icons died 20 years ago.
The Korean peninsula has a lengthy history of exchanging insults.
Far from grasping at Cold War certainties, Le Carré's Smiley embraces the changing role of the British spy.
The idea of a hot and sunny land is so baked into our thinking about Australia that we've failed to design and build houses that protect us from the cold.
The tensions between North Korea and the US over its long range ballistic missile programme echo a well-known James Bond plot.
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