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 ...

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 ...

Ceausescu, who was touchy about his small stature, had staircases in the palace rebuilt twice to accommodate his step.

23 December 1989: Nicolae Ceaușescu’s overthrow follows a week of carnage in which thousands of protesters against his regime were killed in cold blood President Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown ...

BUCHAREST -- It's been nearly half a century since Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided to build the House of the Republic in the heart of Bucharest. It was to be Europe's largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bucharest-based news agency Mediafax has said that the former military compound of Targoviste in central Romania will be accepting visitors from September. Guests will be able to see the wall ...

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 ...