World War 2

Image copyright PA Media Image caption The Queen and Dame Vera, pictured in 1992, were both key UK figures during World War Two The Queen, Prince Charles and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney are among those who have paid respects to Dame Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103.Forces' Sweetheart…

media captionBoris Johnson and Mr Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de GaulleBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast. In 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a…

While the first half of the twentieth century marked a period of extraordinary violence, the world has become more peaceful in the past 30 years, a new statistical analysis of the global death toll from war suggests. The study, by mathematicians at the University of York, used new techniques to…

The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country A decade after the end of World War Two, Canada built a jet which pushed technology to its limits. But its demise showed why smaller nations found it difficult to compete in the Jet Age. IIn the early years of the Cold…

Bomber Crew was already a bit FTL-like, and its sequel is leaning in. Space Crew swaps the original's World War 2 setting for outer space, but otherwise still looks to be a strategy game about telling your vessel's crew what to do as you launch missiles and catch fire. The…

In Depth Annual vigils to mark the devastating fire replaced with an online service due to coronavirusThis Sunday is the third anniversary of the day the UK woke to news that Grenfell Tower in London had caught alight in the country’s worst residential fire since the Second World War.  “Residents…

Updated / Friday, 12 Jun 2020 22:10 John Cleese in Fawlty Towers A classic episode of 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers is to be reinstated on streaming service UKTV after it was removed because it contains "racial slurs". UKTV confirmed in a statement that the famous "don't mention the war" episode…

“Because of your steadfastness in implementing the President’s ‘peace through strength’ policies and that of our colleagues across the U.S. government, our opponents will fail in their malign efforts,” O’Brien said. In media appearances, O’Brien has said he does not think there is “systemic racism” in U.S. law enforcement and…

Undaunted: Normandy is a World War Two game about combat on a very small scale.While there are loads of WW2 board games, too many to count really, this one somehow manages to find room to stand out from the crowd thanks to its elegant game design and focus on the…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank approved a bigger-than-expected expansion of its stimulus package on Thursday to prop up an economy plunged by the coronavirus pandemic into its worst recession since World War Two. Just months after a raft of crisis measures, the ECB again expanded its money-printing scheme…