The Latest Breaking News from World War II

The remains of a 21-year-old bombardier who went MIA during World War II have been positively identified nearly 80 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down.

Introduced in 1935 by the Downtown Athletic Club in Manhattan, the Heisman Trophy is presented to the best player in college football.

The Japanese have a strange affinity for Americana. When American GIs exited the country following World War II, for example, the Japanese adopted and preserved American blue-jean and white-t-shirt culture as their own. These days, if you want the best versions of these American classics, you’re paying in Yen.

Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context and oversimplify history.

The original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical machine called the “memex”, proposed by US Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush in an article entitled As We May…

TSMC discovers an old, unexploded bomb on one of its fab construction sites.

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of guilt and shame for the Holocaust “inseparably” ties the Israel-Palestine conflict to “Germany’s unquestionable solidarity with Israel”,…

As the US marks Veterans Day, the story of a young soldier finally being returned home has been shared

British PM Keir Starmer attends Armistice commemorations in Paris, strengthening UK-France ties and announcing plans for WWII anniversaries.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes history by attending Armistice commemorations in Paris, honoring fallen soldiers and strengthening UK-France rela...