First flying in 1949 the Il-28 Beagle was a twin-engined straight-winged jet bomber powered by the Klimov VK-1 jet engine, an ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the ...

An astronaut in need of doctors' care departed the International Space Station with three crewmates on Wednesday in NASA's ...

Today in History for Jan. 18: In 1535, Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador, founded Lima, Peru.

Figure skating has long been a cornerstone of the Olympics, pre-dating the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 with appearances at ...

Imports of coal from Russia to Japan in November fell by 26%, iron and steel by 82.6% TOKYO, December 17. /TASS/. Trade turnover between Russia and Japan in November 2025 fell by 4.51% compared with ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

The Chinese government has directed the country's airlines to scale back flights to Japan through March 2026, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The airlines were asked ...

Roman Surovtsev was prompt in picking up his two daughters from school every afternoon. It’s important to him to be there for his smiley 3- and 5-year-old girls, peppering them with questions about ...

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund notched its best performance since the quarter ended March 2024, with global equities and favorable currency swings boosting returns. The state pension fund, ...

Astana has quietly replaced a famine memorial plaque, dropping the word “Holodomor” for the neutral “famine.” The change has reignited debate over whether Kazakhstan’s 1930s famine should be called ...

“You have to look at Putin and Russia as an expansionist power,” Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, recently acknowledged. “He wants to re-establish ...