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World War II shipwreck discovered in UK

Learn more about its history.

8 Oct 2017 6:42 PM IST

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Fears squashed: Zucchini mistaken for WWII bomb in Germany

Officers rushed over and found a particularly large zucchini.

5 Nov 2017 2:33 PM IST

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World War I, a revolution for women

Women's contribution is also widely held to have helped secure them the vote, as early as November 1918 in both Britain...

30 Oct 2018 1:34 PM IST

The story is a simple human story set in World War I.

An invisible chapter of history comes to life

Both amusing and heart rending, the supercilious recruiter dances out the inducements of glory and money to the naive...

7 Feb 2018 7:25 AM IST

A health brigade gets ready while on door-to-door visits to carry out COVID-19 tests in Mexico City. (AFP)

Coronavirus has claimed more American lives than WWI

Meanwhile Trump administration insists there will be no shutdown of the economy if a second full-blown wave of the...

17 Jun 2020 9:02 AM IST

Dorene Giacopini holds up a photo of her mother Primetta Giacopini while posing for a photo at her home in Richmond, Calif. on Monday, Sept 27, 2021. (AP/Josh Edelson)

US woman who survived 1918 flu, world war succumbs to COVID

The flu pandemic killed about 675,000 Americans a death toll eclipsed this month by the 2020-21 coronavirus pandemic

1 Oct 2021 11:38 AM IST

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its...

13 March 2022 1:31 AM IST

A Russian traffic police officer wearing a face mask and protective gloves stands in front of a municipal vehicle cleaning and disinfecting a street at Vorobyovy Hills observation point in Moscow. (AFP)

Russia coronavirus cases rise to 87,147, surpass China's

Putin postpones annual parade marking the 1945 defeat of Nazi army in World War II due to the growing outbreak

27 April 2020 2:33 PM IST