25 years after 9/11: The warnings, 'muscle hijackers' and details you may not know

India, Sept. 11 -- Two hijacked planes cutting through the Manhattan sky into the World Trade Center, a plume of thick smoke rising above the Pentagon, and a shattered field in Pennsylvania: the image... Read More

Terrorists planted a bomb beneath the Twin Towers years before 9/11. How a charred van brought down the conspirators

India, Sept. 8 -- For three decades, the Twin Towers were among the most recognisable structures, not only in New York but in the world. They rose above Lower Manhattan and became a symbol of the city... Read More

It took 23 minutes to end a 6-year war. Japan's WWII surrender after 2 nukes and a radio message

India, Sept. 3 -- Six years of global warfare, millions of lives lost and entire cities reduced to rubble -- all came to an end in a single, 23-minute ceremony. On the morning of September 2, 1945, t... Read More

After 2 atomic bombings and a WWII radio message, Japan surrendered in 23 minutes

India, Sept. 3 -- The war lasted six years. Millions died; entire cities were nuked and destroyed. The end to it all took just 23 minutes. On the morning of September 2, 1945, the battleship USS Miss... Read More

NASA once sent chicken eggs to space with funding from KFC

India, Aug. 29 -- The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake. or the chicken. Long before Kentucky Fried Chicken sent a Zinger sandwich towards the edge of space as ... Read More

KFC's 'Kentucky' was born after NASA sent chicken eggs to space

India, Aug. 29 -- The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake. or the chicken. Long before Kentucky Fried Chicken sent a Zinger sandwich towards the edge of space as ... Read More

When the British built a 4,000-km wall of thorns across India to tax a kitchen ingredient

India, Aug. 26 -- Everyday life in 19th-century India involved a barrier larger than most European borders. It was built for the single purpose of keeping salt out of dinner pots. Salt, under the Bri... Read More