The Nord 500 was France’s ambitious attempt to create a high-speed VTOL transport and attack aircraft using twin ducted fans instead of helicopter rotors. First revealed at the 1965 Paris Air Show, it ...

The United States military has killed at least 80 people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean since early ...

November gives rise to a flood of memories. For Ishmael, in Melville’s Moby Dick, November made him yearn for the sea. He ...

In depicting a nuclear attack on the UK, The War Game showed the inevitable deadly firestorm, dead bodies in the streets and ...

We know what landmarks look like today, but structures like the Statue of Liberty and the Sydney Opera House looked a little ...

Edward Cody, a Washington Post foreign correspondent whose mastery of languages, old-school reporting and fierce independence made him a model of his craft during four decades covering conflicts in ...

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...

The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...

Melbourne has produced many iconic bands – but which are the best of the best? We considered live presence, discography and ...

Donald Trump (born on June 14, 1946) is the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his second term began in ...