It might have been the longest wait but on Saturday 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancee in Normandy, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in northwestern France.

World War-2 veteran, 100, marries 96-year-old sweetheart in France after D-Day events

Researchers in Israel are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to do what humans couldn't do, identify hundreds of thousands of Jewish people whose names remain missing from official memorials almost 80 years after they were killed in the holocaust.

Researchers use AI to identify hundreds of thousands of 'missing' holocaust victims

Some relatives of the six Italian civilians who were hanged by occupying German soldiers during Second World War are set to get share of 12 million euros (USD 13 million) 80 years after the incident.

Families of Italian victims of Nazi crime to finally get compensation, after 80 years

The last surviving French fighter who participated in the landmark Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 during the Second World War has passed away. Leon Gautier passed away on Monday (July 3) at the age of 100.

Last Frenchman who fought during D-Day Normandy landings dies at 100

Right after (if not during) World War I, Britain started to wane as the sole superpower of the world. This process slowly & gradually picked up steam after World War II ended in 1945 with the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

The superpower slot after Second World War

The earth outside the tiny village of Treblinka, in eastern Poland, still bears traces of the death camp the Nazis built there in 1942. Close to 925,000 Jews were slaughtered at Treblinka, making it the second-largest Jewish killing field in the world after Auschwitz.

Poland is distorting how we remember the Holocaust

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that the country will deploy the military to aid the Solomon Islands. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare had requested assistance from Australia after protesters in the Pacific Island nation defied a curfew to protest for a second consecutive day.

After spread of protest in Solomon Islands, Australia to deploy military

Two dozen Japanese ships that were sunk near the island of Iwo Jima during World War 2 have been raised from the ocean floor due to seismic activity at Mount Suribachi, one of Japan's most dangerous volcanoes.

Volcano effect: Japanese ships sunk during World War 2 resurface at Iwo Jima

Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed on Sunday the parade that marked 76th anniversary of Soviet Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in Second World War. The parade on Moscow's Red Square featured over 12,000 troops and more than 190 90 pieces of military hardware, including intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, and a fly-past by nearly 80 military aircraft under cloudy skies Putin, who has been in power as either president or prime minister since 1999, stood beside Soviet war veterans on a review platform set up on Red Square.

Russia remembers victory over Nazi Germany with parade on Red Square

In what can be termed as a sale of a throne of different sorts, a toilet seat looted from the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's personal bathroom is being currently auctioned by the family of a US soldier, who took it as a humorous reminder of Hitler’s failed plans to rule the world.

Adolf Hitler's toilet seat looted by US soldier could fetch $15,000 at auction

Emanuele Filiberto, the descendent of Italy'w wartime king Victor Emmanuel III apologised to country's Jewish community for monarchy's role in Holocaust. "I condemn the 1938 racial laws, all of whose weight I still feel on my shoulders to this day, and with me the whole royal house," 48-year-old Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy said of his great-grandfather.

Italian king's heir apologises for monarchy's role in Holocaust during second world war

The city of Paris has unveiled a new museum dedicated to the city's liberation from Nazi rule in the Second World War. The Museum of the Liberation of Paris will open to the public on Sunday (August 25), the same day when Paris marks 75 years since the defeat of the Nazis in the French capital.

New museum to open in Paris to mark 75 years after liberation from Nazi rule

First-level thinkers all look alike. They think the same way other first-level thinkers do, and they usually reach the same conclusions.

Opinion: Donald Trump and the second order thinking

Early voting figures from the Interior Ministry put nationwide turnout at 19.4 percent, above the 14.9 percent from the same point in 2013

Italy votes in uncertain election stalked by populism

When the horrors of the Second world war left thousands of Polish children orphaned in 1942, Jam Saheb Maharaja of Nawanagar, a princely state in Gujarat, welcomed them with warmth and offered them shelter

When an Indian king offered shelter to 1,000 Polish orphans

He shot a Taliban fighter who had been seriously injured by fire from an Apache helicopter, then quoted Shakespeare

British soldier who killed Taliban fighter divides UK

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