The United Nations will mark its 80th anniversary this month but there’s little to celebrate. Its clout on the world stage is ...

Take a solemn flight of discovery with this drone footage of iconic WWI memorials, including the Douaumont Ossuary in France, ...

Rico, a 9-year-old prehensile-tailed Brazilian porcupine who has been delighting visitors at the Cincinnati Zoo for years, ...

Area: The area in and around the town of St Valéry-en-Caux, northern France. Players: Allies: 51st Highland Division, 1st Armoured Division; French 9th Army Corps. Germany: 7th Panzer Division ...

A 22-year-old Jewish officer from New York, Lt, Abraham Condiotti, who comes from a Sephardic Jewish family, was the commander of the first wave of small assault boats in the invasion landing ...

This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. (Chief Photographer ...

Four World War II veterans joined by a small crowd gathered Friday near the War World II Memorial to recognize the 81st anniversary of D-Day.

By June 1940, German forces had blitzed through France in just six weeks, leading more than half of the country to be occupied. As a result, French staples like cheese, bread and meat were soon ...

Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large. Image source, Reuters Image caption, ...

BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...

An account of the first assassination of a member of the German occupation during WW2 in Paris which helped liberate the city to freedom. This video is from The Travel Show, the BBC's flagship ...

The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have identified a previously unknown First World War grave in Adanac Military Cemetery in Miraumont, France, as that of ...