The daring raid on the docks at St Nazaire by HMS Campbeltown and the Royal Marines in March 1942, which rendered the drydock ...

While soldiers in battle have long worn headgear for protection, helmets issued during World War II were never meant to be ...

Background Batters in cricket are continuing to sustain head and facial injuries despite wearing protective helmets. Objective To gain an understanding of the types and mechanisms of head injuries ...

British police were later given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished in 2014. Search teams look through a derelict and abandoned property to the west of Praia De Luz, Portugal, ...

German investigators are working with Portuguese police officers and firefighters to search countryside around 3.5 miles from Praia da Luz.

On 1 Aug 1990, British Airways (BA) Flight 149, scheduled to fly from London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur, via stops in Kuwait and Madras (now Chennai), was briefly delayed before takeoff. “Right at ...

We visit the location where a German officer was gunned down during the World War Two occupation of the city. Skip to content. ... The assassination that turned Paris' WW2 tide.

Fast, fun and reassuringly expensive: the posh motorcycles produced by car brands The ‘Rolls-Royce of motorcycles’ kickstarted an unlikely collab with carmakers in the 1920s that endures to ...

Flying Officer Lyle Whitham was one of eight crew members who died in the crash A woman has described visiting the site where her uncle died in a plane crash during World War Two as "overwhelming ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British imperialism to ...

In one instance, Hobhouse physically dragged a British officer into a tent to look at a dying child, saying “You shall look!”. An illustration of a Boer woman cradling her child in a British ...

Early in the morning of April 19, 1775, British troops left Boston and met colonial militia on Lexington Green. No one can say for certain who fired the first shot but, when the smoke cleared ...