CHINA AIR FORCE STAGES REAL COMBAT TRAINING

File photo shows an aircraft of Chinese Air Force in a training... READ MORE›

CHINA'S SECOND AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO HOLD FIRST SEA TRIALS

Passing the Taiwan Straits is not strange for the aircraft carrier and its naval formation, Li stressed... READ MORE›

JOY LOFTHOUSE, SECOND WORLD WAR PILOT AND TRAILBLAZER, DIES AT 94

The trailblazing second world war pilot Joy Lofthouse, who flew bombers and fighter aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary ATA during the conflict, has died aged 94... READ MORE›

IS THIS THE START OF WORLD WAR III? THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT

World War II began when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, leading to Britain and France to declare war on Germany days later... READ MORE›

SAINSBURYS CHRISTMAS AD IS A DANGEROUS AND DISRESPECTFUL MASTERPIECE

Perhaps the greatest truism, even cliche about the first world war is that nobody ever really understood why it happened, what it was all about... READ MORE›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

BATTLEFIELD LANDSCAPES FROM FIRST WORLD WAR 100 YEARS ON

Above, the landscape of the Newfoundland Memorial Park, in Beaumont Hamel, with trenches, shell crater and wire pickets... READ MORE›

NARWHALS ARE HELPING NASA UNDERSTAND MELTING ICE AND RISING SEAS

The narwhals like it, said Josh Willis, the project lead for NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland... READ MORE›

TOWER POPPY DISPLAY TO GO ON TOUR

The Royal British Legion has said it hopes the sale of the poppies, after the installation has been dismantled, will raise in excess of 15m... READ MORE›

GERMAN CONSERVATIVES ARE DESTROYING EUROPE WITH AUSTERITY, SAYS ECONOMIST THOMAS PIKETTY

German conservatives are destroying europe with austerity says economist thomas piketty... READ MORE›

AUSTRIA NOW SAYS OVER 70 BODIES THOUGHT TO BE MIGRANTS WERE IN TRUCK

The Austrian daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung said that 71 bodies were recovered from the truck... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

NATO JET BUZZES RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER'S PLANE

NATO jet buzzes Russian defense minister's plane, reports say... READ MORE›

DIGITAL MOSAIC OF FALLEN WW1 PRIVATE

Artist, Helen Marshall, 43, said she looked through hundreds of World War One images before choosing Pte Beaney... READ MORE›

US ACCUSES CHINA FIGHTER OF RECKLESS MID-AIR INTERCEPT

Near-misses between aircraft and naval vessels of the US and China are commonplace off the coast of China... READ MORE›

10-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO DIED DURING AN AIR CANADA FLIGHT TO LONDON WAS CANADIAN

Global Affairs Canada is confirming that a 10-year-old girl who died Christmas Eve after falling ill aboard a transatlantic Air Canada flight was Canadian... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

WHY DO WE LOVE THE SPITFIRE?

Britain stepped up the production of fighter planes building them faster than Germany... READ MORE›

FOREST OUTSIDE NAZI DEATH CAMP YIELDS DISTURBING FIND

During World War II, the Nazis were known to adjust Stutthof's size depending on their needs... READ MORE›

GAME OF THRONES' JON SNOW WORRIED OVER LACK OF IT

We went to Iceland to find snow, because winter is here, the actor told Time... READ MORE›

GRAPH OF WORLD WARS BY NUMBER DEAD AND DURATION OF CONFLICT SHOWS HOW WAR IS VERY MUCH NOT BEHIND US

It might be 100 years since the Great War, but the world remains a very turbulent place... READ MORE›

RUSSIA DEPLOYS GROUND-ATTACK AIRCRAFT TO SYRIAN BASE

But American officials said there were no immediate plans for Mr. Carter or Gen... READ MORE›

US-ARMED SYRIAN REBELS 'HIT RUSSIAN HELICOPTER WITH MISSILE'

A US-armed Syrian rebel group claims it has hit a Russian military helicopter with an anti-tank missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

THE WEATHER IN SYRIA IS GREAT FOR AIRSTRIKES, SAYS RUSSIAN TV STATION

October in Syria is a great month for flying a Russian TV weather forecaster explained during a report Sunday... READ MORE›

BRITAIN TO REPAY A?2BN FIRST WORLD WAR DEBT

The Government can currently borrow money at record low interest rates, so it makes financial sense to replace old debt borrowed at higher interest rates... READ MORE›

REFUGE AND RESPONSIBILITY: THE AGE-OLD LESSONS THAT EUROPE FORGETS

Palestinian refugees, in their hundreds of thousands, are our responsibility... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

IS PUTIN THE ONLY WORLD LEADER WITH A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY?

Poll russia's intervention in syria may have no clear end point but vladimir putin desperately wants to demonstrate his country's great power status... READ MORE›

HITLER SECRETLY MADE THE WEAPONS OF THE FUTURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

First flown in 1944, the Horten Ho 229 was the world's premiere stealth aircraft, equipped with twin turbojet engines, two cannons, and R4M rockets... READ MORE›

11am Two hours before Germany's deadline to France expired, Baron von Schoen, the Kaiser's ambassador in Paris, presented himself to Viviani to receive France's reply... READ MORE›

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IS STILL WITH US. THATS WHY WE REMEMBER

What is so striking about the first world war is that it has long stirred a symmetrical hostility in the collective folklore of the right... READ MORE›

V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II

Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›