As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about a Ukrainian ...
Just weeks after sinking three British cruisers in a single morning, sm U-9 returned to the North Sea. This time, its target ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief ...
The soldiers in the 16th Royal Scots were affectionately known as McCrae’s Battalion, named after the lieutenant colonel who founded them, Sir George McCrae. Brought together from Edinburgh and nearby ...
BBC Wiltshire's Karen Gardner reports on what she found near Church Lock Great Bedwyn ...
On 18 August 2011, what was to be Wootton Bassett’s final repatriation came through the High Street. As had become traditional – remarkable given that repatriations only came to Bassett in 2007 – ...
In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands. American cruisers and destroyers raced to intercept a reinforcement convoy bound ...
Georgia's authorities used a World War One-era chemical weapon to quell anti-government protesters last year, evidence gathered by the BBC suggests. "You could feel [the water] burning," one of the ...