With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Britain's trade minister Jonathan Reynolds made the case for a British exemption from tariffs to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a recent phone call. The U.S. accounts for about 5% of UK ...

Russia accused two British diplomats on Monday of spying and gave them two weeks to leave the country, reinforcing the downward trajectory of Moscow's diplomatic relations with Europe even as it ...

A display of ceramic poppies will again go on show at the Tower of London, to "reflect on the lasting legacy of conflict" and mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. More than five ...

The statues have been created by Standing with Giants – the team behind the D-Day display at the British Normandy Memorial, which was unveiled last year. By 1943, 90% of single women of working ...

The battalion had to wait until the emphasis of British and Dominion operations switched to the Ypres Sector of Belgium in mid-1917 to take part in its first major battle; this was the battle of ...

He said that the British-made bomb, weighing 453kg, could have caused major damage had it exploded after workers inadvertently dug it up near train tracks in northern Paris. Pictures from Paris's ...

U.S. Air Force engineers, U.S. Navy Seabees, and U.S. Marine engineer teams have reclaimed a historic World War II airfield from jungle growth in the Western Pacific for use for operations for ...

Other travellers expressed their surprise at the WW2 bomb being discovered in the ... Five of the six flights that British Airways is operating from Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle on Friday ...

in World War II. Thinking individuals will be unsurprised to learn that the Enola Gay was not actually named after the sexual orientation. The plane was named after the mother of its pilot ...

The station is a few minutes' walk from Montmartre and the Sacré-Cœur. Bombs left over from World War I or World War II are regularly discovered around France but it is very rare to find them in such ...