Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...

A climbing frame created in the shape of a World War Two military aircraft has been installed at a village playground to honour its local wartime legacy. The Lancaster Bomber play equipment was ...

It's been crowned the world's happiest country for eight consecutive years but what makes Finland's residents so contented? The Nordic country's spectacular natural beauty and fairytale-like ...

NASA has shared the first images of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams following their return from an epic nine-month space mission that was only supposed to have lasted eight days.

Germany is on track for a sharp increase in military spending that could equip a bigger Bundeswehr—the German military—with more armored vehicles, more air defense batteries, more warships ...

NASA released their final photo aboard the station before they packed up and closed the hatches to begin a 17-hour trip back to Earth. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ...

They died in traumatic fashion while serving King and Country. The 190-strong crew of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Exmouth were on escort duty in January 1940 when their vessel was hit by a ...

In terse notations, the logbook kept by Royal Air Force fighter pilot John “Paddy” Hemingway in the summer of 1940 records the deadly struggles in the skies over England as wave after wave of ...

At least 13 civilians were killed, and nine injured, in strikes on Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa. At least 11 others, including four children and one woman, were killed, and 14 injured, in a ...

The U.S. and Ukraine are pushing Russia to accept a 30-day ceasefire. LONDON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin "stole" another week of war in Ukraine with his vague response to a 30-day ...

In one of the most bizarre St Patrick's Day celebrations from around the world, the Chicago River is dyed green to mark the occasion. Each year the Chicago Plumbers Union dumps a concoction into ...

As Taiwan marked the 78th anniversary of a 1947 massacre by nationalist troops, two photos were shared in posts that falsely linked them to the bloody crackdown which eventually killed up to an ...