Flight Sergeant Harry Winter, who has died aged 103, was shot down over Germany and badly injured – and was convinced that he owed his life to the kindness of a German medical orderly.

A dozen major blackouts and central heating cutoffs across the country have affected hundreds of thousands during a brutal winter. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Older women going to bed in their winter coats.

In January 1940, foreign volunteers and supplies begin reaching Finland as the Winter War intensifies and Soviet forces reorganize for a renewed assault on the Mannerheim Line. At the same time, ...

This episode explains Finland’s “motti” tactic in January 1940—encircling Soviet units into isolated pockets that slowly ...

U.S. athletes brought home 12 golds and made the 2026 Olympics thrilling to watch. But the dark cloud of America politics ...

Amidst all the chaos and destruction since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one important part of the picture is often overlooked: some 900,000 exiles who left Russia to avoid prison ...

Combat has changed in the decades since Finland's Winter War with Russia, but one key lesson still shapes how it thinks about fighting in the Arctic. Dense forests and deep snow force armies onto ...

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, after refusing to stop wearing a helmet that honored fellow Ukrainian athletes and ...

A Ukrainian athlete has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics over his insistence on wearing a helmet honoring people killed in his country’s war with Russia. The International Olympic Committee ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender at the Milan Cortina Games, was not allowed to compete Thursday after refusing a last-minute ...

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Milan Cortina Games after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to use a helmet ...