Satellite imagery reviewed by Newsweek this week showed Chinese-led work to revive a World War II-era runway was nearing completion in the remote South Pacific atoll of Wolaei, just a few hundred ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

A detailed day-by-day map of the Eastern Front in World War II, showing shifting front lines, major offensives, and key ...

Funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government’s Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme, the University of Hong Kong’s ...

After Vladimir Putin declared Russia was ‘ready right now’ to fight Europe, fears have grown over World War 3 breaking out ...

Most historians and scholars agree, the proximate start of the Second World War is Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, because at that point, Hitler's invasion causes Great Britain and ...

Shifty architects, arrogant stone masons, grasping public schools and lucrative limekilns were all part of the heady mix which made up archaeologist Mark Lewis’s fascinating presentation on ...

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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — After 80 years, the remains of a true American hero have returned home to Northeast Ohio. On Saturday, Platoon Sgt. Harold Weaver of Cuyahoga Falls was laid to rest. “Platoon ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

Firefighters tackling a massive blaze in the North Yorkshire moors have been hampered by exploding wartime bombs. Crews have been working to put out a wildfire on Langdale Moor, in the North York ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...