The Latest Breaking News from the first world war

Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly widow and her young servant is deftly told

Poignant services were held across the country on the anniversary of the end of the First World War with a two minutes’ silence observed at 11am.

The remains of 52 British and Commonwealth soldiers have been identified following investigations by Ministry of Defence ‘war detectives’.

In March 1915, a young British man named Raymond Lodge was deployed to Ypres, France, to fight on the front lines of the first world war. By September, he was dead, aged just 26.

Fiennes stars in The Choral, which follows his character as he recruits teenagers into a choral society during the First World War.

For over a century, the ocean has been the ultimate refuge for those who wished to disappear. From the U-boats of the first world war to the nuclear-powered leviathans that glide through today’s deep waters, the submarine has thrived on one simple principle: stealth.

The iconic feathered showgirl was born amid the chaos of the first world war, when the wealthy, global French superstar Gaby Deslys entertained Parisians and Allied soldiers in a 1917 show called Laissez-les tombe! (Let Them Fall), a dazzling spectacle of ostrich feathers, rhinestones and beauty.

Hundreds of people from Dunfermline were killed it the First World War.

The MoD’s war detectives used DNA to identify the remains, which were found during construction work near Lens, a city in northern France.