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Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden tells BBC

Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden tells BBC36 minutes agoNick RobinsonBBC News, in DelawareJoe Biden has told the BBC that pressure from the Trump administration on Ukraine to...

Labour MPs' rage over election results simmers on

Labour MPs' rage over election results simmers on3 hours agoHenry ZeffmanChief political correspondentGetty Images"It's all depressing to be honest". Those are the words of one Labour MP, hitherto...

Millions of people lost their lives during WWII... but ONE death was entirely welcome

Allied War correspondents are shown where Hitler’s body was said to have been burned and buried (Image: Getty)No one knew how or when the Third Reich would collapse. British parliamentarian Harold...

Finally after six year and one day the Second World War was over

In March 1940, in an unremarkable Birmingham University office, German-born physicist Rudolf Peierls and his Austrian-born colleague Otto Robert Frisch wrote a memorandum. In it they argued that a...

Syrian security forces 'oversaw' armed civilians who killed Alawites, accused man says

Syrian security forces 'oversaw' armed civilians who killed Alawites, accused man says23 minutes agoLucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondentReporting fromNorthern SyriaBBCOne of the men accused of...

Some of the hardest yards of the entire war... and they weren't on the Eastern Front

A knocked-out US Sherman along a Normandy hedgerow in June 1944 (Image: Ullstein Bild via Getty)At the end of June 1944, Lance Corporal Ken Tout was still waiting to be allocated a new Sherman tank....

Europe marks VE Day with Trump on its mind

Europe marks VE Day with Trump on its mind1 hour agoKatya AdlerEurope Editor•@BBCkatyaadlerBBC"Celebration? What celebration? It feels more like a funeral" - the damning words of a former senior...

Europe marks VE Day with Trump on its mind

Europe marks VE Day with Trump on its mind1 hour agoKatya AdlerEurope Editor•@BBCkatyaadlerBBC"Celebration? What celebration? It feels more like a funeral" - the damning words of a former senior...

Russia threatens to 'destroy' Ukraine as Kremlin defies Donald Trump's ceasefire demands

Dmitry Medvedev has issued a thinly veiled threat that Russia will destroy Kyiv if Ukraine attacks Moscow during Victory Day celebrations on May 9. On his Telegram channel, the Deputy Chairman of...

Putin army horror as soldier goes on shooting rampage in Russian village

A Russian mother of three was brutally killed by a soldier from Putin's army, after he opened fire on her. The incident happened in a village in the Kursk region of Russia, part of which was seized...

D-Day hero who stormed Normandy beaches and survived being shot three times dies aged 101

A British war veteran who survived the D-Day landings, as well as being shot three times in the line of duty, has died aged 101. Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, served in...

They were the 'Forgotten Army'... but they helped win the war against the Japanese

The war in Burma has been dismissed by some as a strategic sideshow, in the sense that winning or losing was not decisive in ending the conflict. This began with the ‘Germany First’ policy agreed...

China at war with Taiwan – what Xi Jinping aggression would mean for UK

While Ukraine and Gaza have dominated headlines over the last few years, the chances of an even greater war grow in Asia. China has not relinquished its designs over the nearby island democracy of...

Your guide to four days of VE Day 80 celebrations - from flypasts to street parties

Londoners jubilant as they celebrated VE Day in 1945 (Image: Getty)Millions across the UK will come together next week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Four days of...

Post Office boss announces major new deal which means big change for bank customers

Just as MPs warn that shops and services may need to accept cash to protect vulnerable customers, a new agreement will allow millions of bank users to access vital banking services at their local...