Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland.

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after the only specimen was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid "noisy" detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more ...

I am a musician who has spent a good deal of his touring life in the Netherlands. Holland was the first country in Europe that took to my music in a major way, beginning in 1988 when I began ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...