Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tsar Nicholas II's family were all sainted in the year 2000 Fresh genetic tests on bones of Russia's last tsar and his family ...

MOSCOW — For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.

Napoleon Bonaparte's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 saw his massive "Grande Armée" almost destroyed by hunger, enemy attacks and the brutal winter. But now, scientists have identified another ...