Lenin was an expert in kindling revolutions, but he would have been puzzled by what took place in 1989 in Eastern Europe.

Reaction to an outbreak of an as yet undetermined flu has been politicized in Ukraine in advance of the crucial January 2010 presidential election. Panic in Kiev.

Sister Restituta, a Franciscan sister of Austria, was beheaded by the Nazis on March 30, 1943.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Warsaw to reassure Poland about Washington's revamped plans for a missile-defense system in Central Europe. Polish officials say they are ready to participate in the reconfigured U.S. plan.

In desperate times, Jews made desperate choices with a gun to the head in favor of life, even if it meant negotiating with Nazis.