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Discover the global phenomenon of tracking Santa Claus with NORAD, captivating children worldwide on Christmas Eve.

A prominent Russian opposition politician freed as part of the largest East-West civilian prisoner swap since the Cold War says that fears of his mother’s poisoning in Berlin have proven false

In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of appliances, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sparred over the advantages of the two countries’ economic systems. Nixon pointed to the dishwasher on display: “In America,…

Eighty years ago, the December Uprising of 1944, known as the Dekemvrianá, turned Athens into a battlefield as British-backed forces clashed with communist-led resistance fighters in the waning days of World War II

An artist's impression of UFOs appearing over a small town.

It’s spy week! Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw lead Joe Barton’s slick, nasty festive thriller, while Michael Fassbender stars in a very serious cold war show

Camp Century was a U.S. military base that became buried by snow and ice after being abandoned in 1967.

New radar device will ultimately be used to measure thickness of ice sheets in similar environments such as Antarctica

On 3 December 1989, the US and the USSR declared an end to the cold war. A few days later, European Community leaders met to shape a single European market for the 1990s. See how the Guardian reported events