A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, ...

As soon as Michel Barnier was named France's new prime minister, critics found a skeleton in his closet. Back in 1981, the 30 ...

France will have a new government "next week", recently installed conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday, ...

Emilie Buchwald comes from the literary world. Mark Connor from the boxing ring. These two Minnesota poets from very ...

Pte Ray Bailey, from Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was among the Allied troops captured by the Germans in 1940 after the French ...

During World War II, the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), or Children’s Welfare Organization, was a Jewish charity that rescued Jewish children from Nazi Germany. The organization ...

What happened to the French airmen in the Second World War who bombed France to help liberate it? D uring the Second World ...

This theater was already on display in the 1936 Olympic games, when all the “Juden unerwüscht” signs disappeared, and Nazi ...

While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened ...

The room in the Commonwealth Journal office which stores old bound editions of our local newspaper has always been a bit of a ...

While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened ...

Russia would need to take Aland to dominate the Baltic in any conflict with the West. Sweden remilitarised nearby Gotland ...