Today in History for Dec. 26: In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat in the "Battle of Trenton" during the Revolutionary War. In 1791, British legislation creating Upper and Lower Canada (now ...

With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...

He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, as tall as our single-storey building," he said. "It wouldn't stop. My wife ...