This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

More than a dozen war veterans from Ukraine were on hand when Oleksandr Usyk faced Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Pope Leo XIV called for an “immediate halt to the barbarism of the war and for a peaceful resolution of the conflict” during ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...