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Environmental reporter Jane Kay produced one of the most important, hard-hitting stories in the Star's history when she ...

From coast to coast, these are the 10 best history museums in the U.S.

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The historic display of a German Messerschmitt Me-262 fighter in the United Kingdom Horten Ho-229, the avant-garde German ...

Christmas is traditionally intended to be a time of peace and celebration—but most recent wars have continued unabated during the holiday season.

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

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It is being replaced with an £11m new bridge, which will stretch over a mainline railway between Bristol and Taunton, and is ...