Hiroshima is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft. A ceremony, attended…
Greece has threatened to seize German property as compensation for a Nazi atrocity in World War II. Justice Minister Nikos…
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after WWII ended and spent 29 years in the jungle, has…
North Korea has decided to deport US citizen Merrill Newman, who had been detained in the country since October. State…
President Joachim Gauck has become the first German senior dignitary to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, where 642 people were killed…
Hungarian Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary has died at the age of 98 while awaiting trial, his lawyer said.…
Berlin has begun the reconstruction of what was once one of the world's grandest buildings, King Frederick the Great's palace.…
The city of Beverly, a suburb of Boston, called off its Memorial Day parade this year because so few veterans…
President Vladimir Putin will lead Russia tributes to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.…
Certain areas of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport have been closed after a suspected World War II bomb was discovered, a spokeswoman…
US divers have found what appear to be remains of a crew of an Army amphibious plane that went down…
The Associated Press has apologized for sacking Ed Kennedy, a war reporter who broke the news that World War II…
A newly unveiled report written for wartime British intelligence says Adolf Hitler developed a "messiah complex" towards the end of…
A YouTube video presents 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage.…