Bosnia marked 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo that sparked World War I, but the divisive legacy of the gunman Gavrilo Princip meant Serbs shunned the ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A century after Gavrilo Princip ignited World War I with a shot from his handgun, the baby-faced Serb teenager who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in ...

For all the horror that his assassination caused, Archduke Franz Ferdinand the man remains under-recognized. Made heir after his cousin committed suicide and his father declined the throne, Ferdinand ...

The date was June 28, 1914, a memorable day, 25 years ago this week. It was the 550th anniversary, of the battle of Kossovo (“the Field of Blackbirds”) in which the Serbs lost their independence to ...

The shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was fired a hundred years ago this weekend. The assassination in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, triggered World War I and changed the ...

Gavrilo Princip helped spark World War I when he assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne a hundred years ago. In death, he's been a... The Shifting Legacy Of The Man Who Shot Franz ...

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as they rode through the streets of Sarajevo. Journalists and pundits have relied on a few select metaphors ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sarajevo marked 100 years on Saturday since the murder of an Austrian prince lit the fuse for World War One, with a concert by Vienna's premier orchestra trying to send a message ...

Irrepressible Sarajevo was at it again last week, paying public homage to another hero of the assassination which put Sarajevo on the map and started the World War. Sturdy peasants mounted guard all ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sarajevo's City Hall, a building marked by two 20th-century wars, re-opened on Friday, restored to its former glory after being destroyed by Serb shelling of the besieged city in ...

In recent weeks, looking for a suitable (and frightening enough) analogy to explain the possible future impact of the Russian movement into the Crimean Peninsula, a growing number of commentators and ...