The graves of three previously unknown First World War soldiers were rededicated on Wednesday, having been identified more than a century after they fell (Crown ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...

Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion three years ago. Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control over the past year, mostly in ...

The previously unmarked grave of a British soldier who fell fighting for his country in the First World War has been identified more than a century after his death. Lance Corporal George ...

Canada has become a key target for US President Donald Trump. In a recent interview, Trump again repeated that the country could be incorporated into the US as its "51st state," a comment he has since ...

At least 22 Maoist rebels were killed in the jungles of central India today in one of the deadliest clashes since the government ramped up efforts to crush the long-running insurgency. More than ...

It was news that every mother in her street had been dreading. As Hitler's Panzers rolled across France towards Dunkirk in 1940, Alice Barber opened her local paper to read that her 20-year-old ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Russia and Ukraine swapped 175 prisoners Wednesday, in one of the largest exchanges of the war. Ukraine’s ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead produced a greater war, World War 2. After Germany was forced to assume ...

HANOI — Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling ...

As a child, Alex Kurzem faced a choice: be killed or join the killers. In the midst of the Second World War, he was separated from his family and taken in by a group of soldiers as one of their own.

Uldis Kurzemnieks believed he would take his lie to the grave – his life had depended on it. For decades, he told the same story of how he survived the Second World War as a boy, but his niece ...