On April 25, 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire, opening a campaign that quickly ...

In September 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed by guillotine in France and the Western world. The execution took place inside a prison courtyard, away from the public eye.

A museum has assembled a 800-kilogram (1,700-pound) guillotine as part of reflection on Badinter's legacy President Emmanuel Macron was to preside over the ceremony The grave of Robert Badinter, the ...