European fears about the U.S. pulling its troops from the continent have been brewing for some time, with the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, saying: "The U.S. will likely ...

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the ... and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century than ...