World War II
Hooves, hounds, and heroes: Animal soldiers of World War I and II
Amidst the chaos of World War I and II, animals played crucial roles, serving as loyal companions, transporters, messengers, and even soldiers on the front lines. Let's take a look at how these unsung heroes made significant contributions to the war efforts during World War I and II.
Barbenheimer was insensitive, actually
Why is it okay to make memes and jokes about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The need for a new US foreign policy
Unless US foreign policy is changed to recognise the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly World War III.
Chattogram War Cemetery: A World War II memorial
World War II scars are still visible around the world. Chattogram was an important strategic location for the allied forces. In order to tackle the threat from Japan, to occupy Myanmar, and to block access to India, Chattogram was turned into a battleground.
London City Airport shut after WW2 bomb found in Thames
All flights to and from London's City Airport were cancelled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in the River Thames at George V Dock, the airport said.
Wreckage of lost ship USS Indianapolis found after seven decades
Researchers say they have discovered wreckage of the lost warship the USS Indianapolis, 72 years after the World War II cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.
Nagasaki Day / “A peep into hell”
Having dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Brigadier-General Paul Warfield Tibbets Junior—pilot of the first plane (Enola Gay) to drop the atomic bomb—said to have blinked from the flash behind his goggles. When he opened his eyes to look down, what he saw, he described as “a peep into hell.”
Japan marks 72 years since Hiroshima atomic bomb
Japan marks 72 years since the world's first nuclear attack on Hiroshima, with the nation's traditional contradictions over atomic weapons again coming into focus.
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki / “An ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages”
Even after long seventy years of the most catastrophic event of the last century, the jury is still out on whether the bombings of the two Japanese cities were justified, morally or strategically.
From Finland to Sweden during WWII
In February 1944, during the heavy Soviet bomb my parents decided to send me and my five siblings to Sweden once again. I was two years old.
Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima on Asia trip
Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945.
World War II sweethearts reunite in Australia after 70 years
Both single again, Norwood Thomas, 93, has embraced his long lost love, Joyce Morris, 88, after travelling 16,000 kilometres from the United States.
FEATURE: Art therapy lends a hand in clinical psycholog
Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dali, to name just two, were known much later to be suffering from mental illnesses but art became their channel to reach out to society.
Japan and South Korea agree 'comfort women' deal
Japan and South Korea have reached a historic deal to settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two.
Medical record shows Hitler only had one testicle: media
A medical document shows that Adolf Hitler only had one testicle, German media says.
A PERSONAL FOOTNOTE
A year ago today, the world celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A small part of that history is my personal history...
EU holds emergency summit through migrant deal
European Union leaders will gather for an emergency summit on the migration crisis, a day after ministers forced through a controversial deal to relocate 120,000 refugees in a major blow to unity within the bloc.
Australian 'Great Escape' survivor dies, aged 101
One of the last survivors of World War Two's most famous prison break, known as the Great Escape, dies aged 101.
Wreckage of Soviet WWII plane recovered from riverbed in Poland (video)
The wreckage of a World War II Soviet plane and the remains of two crew members have been retrieved in Poland.
