Life can be unpredictable and is often infused with bitter irony. Consider the incredible and terrible course of the two brothers Ernst and Max. Born into the luxury of the Austro-Hungarian imperial ...

SARAJEVO Sarajevo (dpa) – Sarajevo may soon put up a monument to the archduke whose assassination in 1914 triggered the First World War, but a few Serb-Moslem disagreements have to be settled first.

On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked World War I. NPR's Ari Shapiro takes a tour of the city and learns the... A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A ...

Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 29, 1914. -- The second attempt in the same day proved successful and Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, together with his morganatic wife, 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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — This past winter my preoccupation with what we ...

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Who knew that the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria — the event that reputedly triggered the start of World War I — could be so ridiculously witty? Apparently playwright Rajiv Joseph ...

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 ...