World War 2

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…

For those with even a passing interest in the Second World War, the name Colin Gubbins is synonymous with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This is not surprising as from its creation in late 1940 at Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s command ‘to set Europe ablaze’, Gubbins was the driving force…

Credit: Carlos Saba In 1981, the US government publicly accused Soviet-backed forces in southeast Asia of waging toxin warfare and violating their legal obligations under the 1925 Geneva Protocol and 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. It alleged that aircraft dispersed ‘yellow rain’ containing mycotoxins that were “not indigenous to the region”.…

Credit: Carlos Saba In 1981, the US government publicly accused Soviet-backed forces in southeast Asia of waging toxin warfare and violating their legal obligations under the 1925 Geneva Protocol and 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. It alleged that aircraft dispersed ‘yellow rain’ containing mycotoxins that were “not indigenous to the region”.…