Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Latin Bridge near the assassination site. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. Ironically, ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

Turkish police secure the area outside where the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot inside an art gallery, Dec. 19, 2016, Turkey in Ankara. Erhan Ortac/Getty Images The Russian ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, leave the reception at City Hall in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 shortly before they were assassinated. AP The ...

Bosnia has been buried in historic floods and paralyzed by political dysfunction. Now, locals in Sarajevo are frustrated that the world has only begun focusing on the region for the upcoming ...

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND LIVES!: A WORLD WITHOUT WORLD WAR IBy Richard Ned Lebow Palgrave MacMillan, $27, 256 pages One bullet: That’s all it took to make (or perhaps unmake) the 20th century. Just ...

While fact and fiction often blend in retrospect, according to various accounts in his final days, Archduke Franz Ferdinand expressed forebodings about his journey to Bosnia to observe the empire’s ...

According to the American diplomat George F. Kennan, the First World War was the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, “the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of ...

One hundred years ago today in Sarajevo, a Serb nationalist shot to death at point-blank range the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie.