Beloved Concord teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian teacher ever chosen for a space mission, was one of seven crew members killed in the disaster.

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp run by the Nazis, Pope Francis said the horror ...

On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in ...

These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of ...

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...

Through its investigation, the BBC found that Israel's attack on a 'Hezbollah base' killed mostly civilians and only six ...

Rape is a widespread and systematic tool of Russian aggression. Despite overwhelming evidence, Russian authorities continue to deny these atrocities.

A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted ... on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the ...

The United Nations human rights chief warned on Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming "more dangerous" for civilians, following reports alleging that army-allied militias have been carrying out ...

Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been leading the army during Sudan's 21-month civil war The US government has ... follows reports of the killing of civilians in the central city of Wad Madani ...

Ukraine has said that around 2,000 civilians remain in territory it controls, while Russia has put the number reported missing at less than 1,000. Follow our coverage of the war on the ...