As hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when many regarded Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu as an open-minded Marxist, a nationalist communist, even a proponent of socialism with a human ...

Herta Müller's The Village on the Edge of the World, a reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain, is due for release by ...

Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena to solve the mystery of where they ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian auction house is selling memorabilia belonging to former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to mark what would have been his 100th birthday. The "Golden Era" ...

Thirty years ago, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad after a hasty one-hour show trial. The pair had fled from power in a helicopter after a popular ...

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had nothing on Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena. After a popular uprising in 1986 forced the Marcoses to flee from the Philippines into exile in Hawaii, tales of their ...

The presidential plane of late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is going under the hammer. The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989, is to ...

FILE PHOTO: 1977 ARO car, belonging to late Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is pictured in Bucharest FILE PHOTO: 1977 ARO car, belonging to late Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu ...

In this handout photo provided by Artmark auction house, a 119-seat "Rombac One-Eleven", one of nine such passenger jets built in Romania which was used by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu for ...

This fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is informative and, especially in its last hour, surprisingly dramatic. By Peter Brunette, The Associated Press ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...

The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution Wednesday after forensic scientists dug up their official graves in a hunt for ...