Young skaters, their parents and coaches accounted for 24 of the 60 passengers killed when a regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. Here's how Utah skaters ...

From the outside, Norway can look like a haven of affluence, a country whose population of just 5.5 million is propped up by a gargantuan sovereign wealth fund worth nearly $2 trillion. Yet the ...

WikiWikiWeb, 'the world's first wiki,' presents the story of a shoe factory in the former Soviet Union as an example of how setting easily visible goals too easily could have led to unrealistic ...

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world ...

The U.S. skating community was in mourning on Thursday after learning some of the country’s most promising young figure skaters, as well as parents and coaches, were aboard an American Airlines ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...

The IOC organised boxing at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and, though it says it will not do so at future Olympics, it remains hopeful the sport can be restored to the programme through a new ...

The designers of the medals for the 2024 Olympics in Paris have spoken out after a number of them were handed back by the winning athletes for being in poor condition. Team USA skateboarder Nyjah ...

Iran is also able to purchase retired old aircraft on the black market— retired Airbus A340s seem to be an Iranian favorite. However, Russia is a shadow of what the Soviet Union once was—much of the ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...