Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany to rally his country round the Ukraine offensive at a grand military par...

Centenarian Dorothea Barron has been teaching yoga for 60 years, but 82 years ago she was helping British troops prepare for the D-Day Normandy landings in WWII.

Now, she is among an ever-shrinking number of veterans with first-hand memories of the war.…

Around 740,000 people were killed or injured in the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945.More than 10% of the victims we...

Tens of thousands of people have braved blazing heat to pay their respects at a controversial Japanese shrine, as Emperor Naruhito spoke of his "deep remorse...