"WWII"

A Japanese sword belonging to a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army was handed over to his surviving family members in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Saturday after being stored in a house in the United States for more than 70 years.

Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and the coronavirus.

At Lucille Ellson's home, inside her brimming drawers, are hints of how the present mirrors the past.

Re: “Confused about Brexit? It couldn’t be simpler…”, Have Your Say, May 2.

Re: “Britain is no land of saints and gentlemen”, Have Your Say, February 18.

A new film is shining an uncomfortable light on the fate of thousands of Italians killed in massacres on the Yugoslav frontier at the end of the Second World War.

The last survivor of the 1943 Nazi raid on the Rome Ghetto, in which more than 1,000 Jews were taken away to concentration camps, has died aged 91, the Italian Jewish community said Friday.

Norwegian World War II hero Joachim Ronneberg, who led a major sabotage operation against the Nazis in his occupied homeland, died on Sunday, aged 99.

Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police said Sunday.

Re: “Who stopped the Nazis?”, Letters, July 14-15.

Wreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Monday.

London City Airport announced its closure on Sunday after a World War Two bomb was discovered in the nearby River Thames.