Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 14—Some use the nickname Stars and Stripes. A few Americans still refer to it as Old Glory. But most simply call the banner ...

The fires might have been lit in Ancient Greece but which city was the first in the modern era to light the Olympic flame? The lighting of the Olympic Flame is an integral and symbolic ceremony which ...

Security guards forced the demonstrators to take down the flag Activists unfurled a Tibetan flag and a banner that said "no genocide" at the flame-lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter ...

Video showing colours of the national flag of France released during an air show celebrating the arrival in Marseille of the Olympic flame has been shared with the false suggestion that pilots ...

THE last, dying minutes of the Olympic Games could have been unbearably sad or they could have been overplayed to the point where emotion slid disastrously into the maudlin. Neither of these things ...

The Flame of Peace torch relay of the 2nd edition of the European Games reached State Flag Square in Minsk on 17 June. Taking part in the final stage of the relay were four-time Olympic champion Darya ...

Activists unfurled a Tibetan flag and a banner that said "no genocide" at the flame-lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Greece on Monday. The demonstrators produced the flag and ...