The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten Japanese people whose fathers and grandfathers once fought against the British travelled to the UK to mark victory over Japan day (VJ day). The story of their ancestors is one that is often forgotten.…

The recent opening of an immigration centre in El Paso, Texas, has reignited protests of the Trump administration’s tough immigration plans from Japanese Americans. The internment camp, which opened in August 2025, is on the site of a military base that was used to intern Japanese Americans during the war.

Stirling Castle and the Kelpies are among the sites around the UK set to be lit up on Friday evening to commemorate the end of the Second World War.

Eighty years ago this week, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant the end of not only the war in the Pacific, but also the second world war that had begun six years earlier, in September 1939.

A guest onThe Repair Shop broke down in tears after his grandmother’s diary from the Second World War was restored.

Washington’s ambassador to Israel told Sir Keir to ‘sit this one out’ after the UK PM criticised Israel’s plans for Gaza

Washington’s ambassador to Israel also suggested that Sir Keir would have lost Britain the Second World War.

Sidney Machin, from Dorset, was made a freeman as a tribute to his service in the Second World War

Here’s where to remember the sacrifice of more than 90,000 troops in the Far East