“This is the phoney war,” he said. It's not clear whether the comment should be interpreted as a promise that things are going to get better than the party point-scoring experienced so far or just a threat of even more intensified Punch and Judy …

Chen once speculated in Iraqi currency because he thought it would go up in value as the country rebuilt, like the German currency after World War II. But that did not happen. "Bitcoin is like the lottery. It's a gamble," Chen says. What Bitcoin is …

Initial occupation of the site dates to 1816 when Revolutionary War veteran John Click built a log cabin on the property. However, he never got a deed to the property and lost it to John McKee in 1823. McKee was the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw …

Gold has become Sudan's top export and earner of foreign currency. … The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and some aides on charges of masterminding war crimes in Darfur.

But at the end of the Second World War, my father was with Allied forces when Dachau was liberated, and he took photographs of the consequences of what happened at that concentration camp. I think his photos and his reaction to them sort of shaped my …

If that happens, the U.S. would lose the global currency war. Three years ago, Brazilian Prime Minister Guido Mantega warned troubled economies around the world were taking measures to weaken their currencies. While this makes exports more competitive …

Of course, the main name that most people will automatically think of in association with the Revolutionary War is George Washington, and rightfully so, but another important name to know is Gen. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de … “So we …

Editor's note: In conjunction with a recent Civil War exhibit hosted by the Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives, area historian Brent Beckett researched several local war stories — researching and recounting Civil War events that happened in Ray …

Two countries extend currency swap valued at more than $55bln. By Ju-min Park and Sui-Lee Wee. BEIJING, June 27 (Reuters) – China's … Park Geun-hye, one of Asia's few women leaders, took office in Seoul in February amid war threats by North Korea …