World War 2

An editorial project by London's V&A Museum reflects on objects that have been ascribed new meanings and functions during the coronavirus pandemic. Curator Brendan Cormier selects his highlights.Pandemic Objects is an online editorial project that was launched at the beginning of May, composed of a series of articles posted on…

May's irreversible slide into June means another batch of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers, and this month they look an awful lot like Call of Duty WW2 and Star Wars Battlefront 2.Call of Duty WW2 released in 2017 and marked the long-running first-person shooter series' return to its Second World…

Toy Soldiers, a classic from the era of Xbox Live Arcade, is getting a full sequel more than a decade later. Moving its tower defense action forward to World War 2, Toy Soldiers 2 will launch on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch in 2021. In the meantime, remasters of the…

By Farah MasterHONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and became one of Asia's richest men, died on Tuesday at the age of 98.The flamboyant tycoon, who loved to dance and advised his nearest and dearest…

Published on May 25, 2020Former vice president and Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden made his first known public appearance outside his Delaware home in almost two months on Monday to mark the U.S. Memorial Day with a trip to a nearby veteran's memorial.Biden along with his wife Jill, both…

Call of Duty: World War 2 Credit: Activision There’s no shortage of Call of Duty these days, with the juggernaut of a shooter franchise resurgent once again thanks to the twin successes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale that feeds back into Modern Warfare…

By Trevor HunnicuttNEW CASTLE, Delaware (Reuters) - Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday made his first public appearance outside his Delaware home since quarantining himself due to the coronavirus pandemic 10 weeks ago, visiting a nearby veterans memorial to mark the U.S. Memorial Day holiday.Biden, the prospective Democratic presidential…

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Balbir Singh pictured (l) in London in 1948 with Indian High Commissioner Krishna Menon and in Melbourne in 1956, leading the team to another gold Indian sport is mourning the loss of one of its greatest heroes - hockey player Balbir Singh - who…

Image copyright Moscow Zoo Image caption Saturn escaped from Berlin Zoo when it was bombed - but he didn't belong to Hitler An alligator who survived World War Two in Berlin and was rumoured - wrongly - to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has died in Moscow Zoo."Yesterday…