We have come north with Romanenko into the high Russian Arctic, to an archipelago known as Franz Josef Land, and although it’s not our primary purpose, that question underlies much of what we’ ...

Franz Bergman was an Austrian entrepreneur best known for his Viennese foundry which produced many patina- and cold-painted bronze sculptures of erotic figures, animals, Orientalist scenes, and ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Karlovy Vary Festival will pay tribute to one of the Czech Republic’s most famous sons with a retrospective of film adaptations of the work of Franz ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...

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The statue of legendary German soccer player "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer will be erected at the Allianz Arena in his hometown of Munich. The late German football legend Franz Beckenbauer will be ...

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Captions, photographs, maps, graphics and commentary explain how the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War One. Events are traced from the shooting by ...

Bernd Holzenbein, a former teammate of Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller who won the 1974 World Cup with West Germany, has died aged 78 German World Cup winner Bernd Holzenbein has died aged 78 ...