Second World War News

A World War 2-era bomb was found in a residential area of Exeter city near London, the capital of Britain. A video of the explosion of this bomb is also becoming increasingly viral.

A World War 2-era bomb was found in a residential area of Exeter city near London, the capital of Britain. A video of the explosion of this bomb is also becoming increasingly viral.

Italy is used to living with political uncertainty thanks to the more than 60 governments it has piled through since the republic was established after the Second World War.

But the move threatens to complicate relations with Tokyo, even as the two countries, both of them security allies of Washington, face threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid homage at the Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery here, a reminder of the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during the nearly 900-day Siege of Leningrad, as St Petersburg was then known, during the Second World War.

Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in New York city's Times Square after the Second World War ended in 1945, has died, a media report said.

The headquarters of German carmaker Volkswagen were being searched by explosive disposal experts on Friday after construction workers found signs of potentially unexploded bombs dating from the Second World War.

The excavated remains of soldiers and artefacts of a US Air Force B-24 bomber that had crashed in present-day Arunachal Pradesh during the World War II will be sent to the US on Wednesday, in what would be an emotional closure for the families of the fallen men.

The EU aims to stem the flow of migrants and plans to declare the route north through the Balkans closed.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community has warned that events across the world in recent times were moving towards a third World War.