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 ...

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 ...

A World War One soldier has been buried alongside two unknown comrades, 109 years after his death. Sjt Richard Rounsley, who was from Tanfield in County Durham and served in the 12th Battalion of the ...

BlackMill Games has announced Gallipoli, the next game in the long-running realistic multiplayer WW1 game series that includes Verdun, Tannenberg, and Isonzo. WW1: Gallipoli takes place in the Middle ...

During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were recorded and ...

In many cases these researchers didn’t understand what was being said. The recordings were archived as language samples, yet most were never used, translated, or even listened to for decades. The many ...