The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman arrives at the NATO Marathi Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Crete, during a port visit on ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau, liberated on January 27, 1945, was the largest extermination camp during the Nazi era. At least 1.1 million people were murdered there by the Nazis, more than in any other site ...

ATHENS - Greek authorities have found makeshift bombs, explosives, hand grenades and thousands of bullets during a raid on a warehouse on the southern island of Crete, police said on Friday ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...

A surrendering North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop his sausage at gunpoint, according to the Ukrainian paratroopers who captured him. A detailed video account, published by ...

By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a plastic bag among trash bins near the northern city ...

Helene Cooper reported from Washington. The North Korean soldiers fighting for Moscow in Russia’s Kursk region are assigned their own patches of land to assault. Unlike their Russian ...

Donnie MacRae grew up in Gairloch and was a talented tailor Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that ...

Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that his family discovered he had been buried without his brain.

Eight decades later, their descendants are learning the truth: The three crew members were pulled off an SS prisoners’ train ... who also served in World War II, is buried.