The institute played an important part in feeding the post-war world. Several high-yielding and disease-resistant strains of wheat and blight-resistant strains of potato originated there.

Russia was not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, although it ...

Donald Trump is the least popular newly elected president since the Second World War, with the exception of himself in 2017, ...

Sniper Elite: Resistance is a classic Second World War movie in playable form. Full of derring-do and dastardly Nazis. In this respect – and many others, it must be said – Resistance doesn't ...

Remarkable pictures capture the Second World War through the lens of a German soldier's camera - which was pinched by a cheeky British commando. A 98-year-old Kent woman told how she was ...

The site of Alconbury Weald, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was once a key military hub during World War II and the Cold ...

A former RAF pilot who launched a charity which flies humanitarian aid to isolated communities has died, with his wife paying ...

The remains of a Second World War lookout post have been uncovered by a Brierley Hill park group after an archaeological dig took place.

During the Second World War, he was involved in the Marseille landings – an operation in the south of France that acted as a diversion to draw attention away from the Normandy operation.

Bank archives may still hold secrets about Swiss actions during the Second World War and should be re-examined, especially those of UBS, says Marc Perrenoud, a historian who worked on the Bergier ...