A suspected grenade has been found in a shed, causing 150 homes to be evacuated. Police have put up a 328ft (100m) cordon around a property on Gilsland Crescent in Darlington and contacted bomb ...

The final offensive of the Italian campaign found the German forces in naturally favourable positions: the east of their line was protected by the Apennines, the west by an expanse of flooded land ...

80 people from a nearby apartment building were evacuated, and others in the surrounding were advised to close their windows and doors. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “@ ...

Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Crowds gathered to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Occupation in Guernsey.

Outcome: The British armed forces increased in number by more than 1.5 million by the end of the year conscription was introduced. The Emergency Powers (Defence Act) of August 1938 had empowered ...

The face of a World War Two codebreaker is appearing on a special set of stamps being issued to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. William Tutte, or Bill, was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, in 1917 ...

Displaced people have been trying to seek safety after the Zamzam camp was attacked. Sudanese people are eating leaves and charcoal to survive after fleeing an attack on a camp for displaced ...

Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas unveiled the evacuation plans this week, which identified 150 routes for the roughly 540,000 residents of the city to take in the event of an attack by Moscow.

World War 2 buffs have been left “gripped” after discovering an “unmissable” audio drama about the conflict. Released by BBC Radio 4 in the nineties, that drama is Bomber, based on the ...

Buildings were evacuated as a powerful magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Istanbul in Turkey today. Footage shows locals waiting on the streets after the tremor shook the city.

Officials in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, have unveiled an evacuation plan that would be used in the event of an invasion of the city. It sets out how the city's 540,000 residents would be ...