During World War II, a German military captain acquired a stolen erotic mosaic while stationed in Italy. The ancient artwork ...

Eighty-two years ago, the world was convinced Louis Zamperini was dead. A death certificate was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt because there hadn't been news from the former Olympic athlete ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

The European Commission says it’s protecting farmers with a smaller but ring-fenced budget. Europe’s farmers say the cuts ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Set 100 miles southeast of Berlin in Poland, the 900 guards of Stalag Luft III oversaw 10,000 or so prisoners, all Allied ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

Kenneth Kramer, just 20 years old when he died, was from Washington state and appeared to have no connection to Michigan, officials said.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.