Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...

Bobby was a Skye Terrier, a Scottish dog breed. He lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 19th century with his owner, a ...

A colourful display of knitted poppies, to mark the sacrifice of animals during conflicts has gone on display."The Purple Richmond Poppies", created by a group from Richmond in North Yorkshire, are on ...

Mercy dogs didn’t need orders, medals, or parades—they just saw a man bleeding in the mud and ran straight into gunfire to ...

Maria Reva’s startling and ambitious whirlwind of a debut novel, “Endling,” involves soon-to-be-extinct animal species, the worst European terrestrial conflict since World War II and the ...

Once home to guerrillas — for whom it offered an airstrip and a plentiful supply of free-range meat — the Mozambican park has ...

By June 1940, German forces had blitzed through France in just six weeks, leading more than half of the country to be occupied. As a result, French staples like cheese, bread and meat were soon ...

An impulse to probe the existential mysteries of life inspired Francis Crick to unlock the structure of DNA, posits ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th anniversary this month. There’s little to celebrate.

World War I earned the grim title of “the War to end all wars” for a reason: the world had never before witnessed a conflict on such an unimaginable scale. The sheer scale of the conflict felt unreal ...

That lawn mower you use to cut your grass has been centuries in the making. Yes, really. The history of the lawn mower is ...

Families with young kids, foreign workers, and young professionals are seeking shelter in underground train stations in ...