As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

A 93-year-old grandma who is battling dementia and keeps asking to "go home" to her birthplace in Germany was given a ...

Diplomats in the region have spent weeks trying to prevent a confrontation that they say risks a wider conflict.

When the Western Front froze in 1914, Germany faced a stalemate. Captain Willie Roar’s experiments with small, fast assault ...

How a mountain town in Washington’s Cascade range underwent a drastic makeover after a railroad relocation nearly wiped it ...

While biogas — energy produced mostly from crops or animal manure — has long been promoted as part of the European Union’s (EU) energy transition, it now receives renewed attention as a tool to ...

Prominent Matabeleland South farmer Peter Cunningham is one of only a few farmers still breeding ostriches in Zimbabwe.

Chef Robert Bell I remember my Mom going to the butcher to buy chopped meat. Literally, it was hand-chopped, usually Round ...

“Americans work, annually, 125 more hours yearly than workers in Canada, 204 more, annually, than workers in Japan, 279 more, ...

I have often wondered what it felt like for my ninth great-grandfather, Johannes (Hans) Christoffel Emich, to stand on the deck of a ship after weeks at sea and look toward land he had never seen.

The directors behind four of the year's most acclaimed films confront politics, violence and the limits of neutrality at the European Cinema Roundtable: "European Cinema on the Edge," a collaboration ...

Guthrie Center, on the far western edge of the Des Moines metro, served as an overnight town twice in RAGBRAI’s first 11 ...