Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

MLB draft set to kick off Sunday, let's review the highs and lows of each team’s fortunes in the first round this century.

In December 1905, England played New Zealand in the first-ever rugby test match between the two nations. The All Blacks, ...

Yesterday Iranian media published new CCTV footage purporting to show an attack on Tehran during the war which was widely ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Iranians to “rise up” and overthrow Tehran’s “evil and oppressive regime”. As Iranian missiles rained down on Israel in retaliation for Thursday’s devastating attack ...

Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

Cologne: Around 20,000 people being evacuated after unexploded Second World War bombs discovered The city, in western Germany, is undergoing its biggest ever post-war evacuation after discovery of ...

Around 20,000 people have been told to evacuate from Cologne’s city centre after three Second World War-era bombs were discovered. Residents face the city’s biggest evacuation since the war as ...

Second World War scrapbooks bring memories back to life for Globe readers Canadians share stories of finding faded photos of fathers after reading a story about Klaas Nieborg’s mementoes of war ...

Examine Bob Hope and his troupe of performers' impact on World War II. Legendary entertainer Bob Hope and his troupe of performers traveled over 80,000 miles during WWII to entertain the troops ...