French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decorated concentration camp survivor and political icon Simone Veil as an officer in the Legion of Honor.

The last British survivor of World War I’s grinding trench warfare was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor on Monday.

Fresh from his best actor Oscar for his performance as Harvey Milk, Sean Penn is pushing California to officially recognize the late gay politician’s birthday.

A 24-year-old Afghan immigrant has been convicted of murdering his 16-year-old sister in a so-called “honor killing” in Germany.

France paid homage to the author behind fiction’s most famous boy magician by inducting Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling into the country’s prestigious Legion of Honor on Tuesday.

France paid homage to the author behind fiction’s most famous boy magician by inducting Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling into the country’s prestigious Legion of Honor on Tuesday.

Lt. Col. Jaime Martinez came close to missing preparations for Inauguration Day and a great honor for those who serve in the Army’s oldest infantry regiment.

Camera flashes twinkled nonstop for several minutes. A singer-less national anthem turned into a giant sing-a-long. And nearly all members of the Ring of Honor were back under the hole in the roof.

The Department of Defense has reaffirmed its decision not to award the Medal of Honor to a San Diego Marine who witnesses say threw himself on a grenade to save his colleagues in Iraq in 2004.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have made the birthday of gay political icon Harvey Milk a statewide “day of significance.”