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After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts. Complete Story...
A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder Tuesday after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers.
Holders of lost savings bonds dating back to World War II say its not nearly as easy to track down the lost money as the U.S. Treasury Department claims in an ongoing lawsuit.
Oil company Total UK has pleaded guilty to three charges stemming from a massive oil depot fire in 2005, the biggest conflagration in Europe since World War II.
London faces the largest security challenge since World War II when it hosts the 2012 Olympics, British security minister Alan West said Friday.
Two captured Japanese submarines scuttled by the U.S. Navy just after World War II have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean south of Pearl Harbor.
The Australian government on Thursday approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator accused by Hungary of a World War II killing.
The Australian government on Thursday approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi war criminal accused by Hungary of a World War II killing.
Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered outside Japan's moat-ringed Imperial Palace — many shouting "Banzai," a traditional wish for long life — to mark Thursday's 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's coronation to the world's oldest throne.
The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.
President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
A weaker dollar may boost the nation's economy by increasing exports and narrowing the trade gap — but that won't happen anytime soon.
Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday at age 90.
Even though it was 65 years ago, Al Tortolano clearly recalls the one thought, the only thought, that ran through his mind as his military unit was surrounded by German soldiers during World War II.
For two decades after her son's bomber went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. government twice a month to ask if his body had been found — or if anyone was looking.
Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his "fundamental rights have been violated" by judges who started without him.
The son of a Dutch civilian killed by a Nazi hit squad during World War II urged the former Waffen SS soldier charged with his father's murder to accept responsibility for his actions in court Monday.
A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the two cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in World War II.
An 88-year-old man accused by Hungary of Nazi war crimes during World War II surrendered to Australian police Thursday after exhausting his appeals against extradition.
Fifty years after he rocketed to the international stage with "The Tin Drum," Guenter Grass is still surprised at the overnight success of his tale of World War II as told through the eyes of a stunted boy and his toy instrument.
Mike Weidenbach has walked across the historic teakwood decks and through the metal hallways of the USS Missouri countless times in the past decade. But he recently realized how massive the aging battleship is from a new perspective — underneath.
Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88.
Germany's highest court said Thursday it has declined to hear the appeal of admitted Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere, clearing the way for his trial later this month for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II.
A Kentucky nurse accused of killing a 90-year-old World War II veteran with a morphine injection three years ago has pleaded not guilty to murder.
A rejoinder to Dr. Subhash Kapila's articleIndian political leaders, writers and media analysts and intelligence agencies are past masters in creating doubts and misgivings between groups, communities, political parties and institutions to fan ethnic and sectarian tensions, political polarization and foment fissiparous te …
The child of Auschwitz's KommandantBarbara Cherish is a child of the SS, and the burden lies heavily upon her.
My grandfather was a double war veteran. He served our country proudly in World War II and in the Korean War. He was taken away from me too early on April 21, 1988.
The Africans who fought in WWIIThe 70th anniversary of World War II is being commemorated around the world, but the contribution of one group of soldiers is almost universally ignored. How many now recall the role of more than one million African troops?
Father of China's space tech program dies at 98Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.
Karadzic shuns war crimes trial, court to proceedTHE HAGUE - Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic boycotted the start of his trial for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two, but judges said they would proceed without him if he stayed away.
Resistance hero 'told to leave'A British officer who trained French Resistance fighters during World War II was told to "go home" by Charles de Gaulle, newly released files show.
Numerous memoirs of the Holocaust have been published, and no doubt many are yet to be published. Most of these fall into a particular genre. They chronicle someone's experience of one of the darkest periods in human history.
Trust quotient needle near zeroBefore we throw caution to the wind and build a new embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan - a la Baghdad - fit for 1,000 employees, let's first acquire a proper understanding of the nature of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. A majority of Pakistanis believe that Sept.
Dissolve the Palestinian AuthorityPalestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli …
COLUMN-Catch-22 and the long war in AfghanistanListening to the protracted Washington debate over the war in Afghanistan, the phrase Catch-22 comes to mind. It was the title of a best-selling 1961 satirical novel on World War II by Joseph Heller and entered the popular lexicon to denote a conundrum without a winning solution.
US soldier returns looted textsA former US soldier has returned two historic books he took as "souvenirs" during World War II.
From The Political and Financial Markets Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) Appeasement
TheStar.com | World | British woman unites with long-lost Canadian siblingsA feel good news story... Meets siblings at Pearson after seeking Star's help in finding war vet father Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener
Huts used to defeat Nazis rescued by £4m grantBletchley Park, the wartime intelligence centre, has achieved a breakthrough which could mean that its historic wooden huts are saved from going to rot.
Chocks away! This is an auction that will take offA rare Hawker Hurricane, a fabric-covered fighter flown by hundreds of Australians in World War II, will be auctioned in Melbourne this weekend and is expected to fetch between $2 million and $4 million.
Discussion on the Publication of Photographs of Wounded or Dying Soldiers...a large number of readers believe that journalists who insist on depicting the "horrors of war" are, in fact, advocating a pacifist political agenda — with one eye on a Pulitzer. More Articles
ECONOMIC SCENE: Afghanistan will cost US more than IraqFunding for war in Afghanistan will eclipse Iraq for the first time in next year's budget...
D-Day memorial in dire need Congress gave little more than its good wishes. Private funds covered the $19 million construction cost. The memorial has relied on admission fees and donations since its dedication in 2001.
Outside View: From London to KabulPrime Minister Gordon Brown delivered a major address on Afghanistan here in London. The speech was to mark a major change in British policy meant to refocus British efforts in this war and bring more resources across government to bear.
PM Gordon Brown Appologises To Alan Turing. Turing Took His Life 55 Years Ago After The British Govt Sentenced Him To Chemical Castration for Being GayGordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay.
Karzai defends Afghanistan election as honestKABUL - Incumbent Hamid Karzai defended last month's Afghan presidential election as honest on Wednesday, a day after returns showed him set to win in a single round and a U.N-backed panel ordered a partial recount.
To Republican Rank and File, Hitler = Bad, But to Pat Buchanan, Hitler Was Just Misunderstood...If you're Pat Buchanan, of course, you never let a little thing like history stop you from a good opportunity to try to paint Hitler as being on OK guy and to explain how Adolf Hitler didn't really want war and he was just a poor, misunderstood guy forced to fight by those nefari …
MSNBC's Pat Buchanan defends Hitler, Againexcerpt: ''"If you get caught defending Hitler two times ... Well, I guess you could say it was just be an unfortunate coincidence.
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