World War I

No Comment

Video. King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday ceremony

The 75-year-old king, dressed in his Royal Navy uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet, laid a wreath of poppies at the base of the Cenotaph in London, in recognition of the fallen from conflicts dating back to World War I.

11/11/2024

No Comment

Macron and Starmer lay wreath at Paris' Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined French President Emmanuel Macron at a Paris ceremony marking the 106th anniversary of the Armistice on Monday.

11/11/2024

United Kingdom

Britain’s King Charles leads national tribute to fallen soldiers

The event in London featured a two-minute silence to commemorate the dead and came a day after some 300,000 people took to the streets of the capital for a pro-Palestine march.

12/11/2023

Culture news

Culture Re-View: The world's most exotic spy is sentenced to death

On this day in 1917, Mata Hari was sentenced to death in Paris for allegedly spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I. Was she really a secret agent or just a scapegoat?

25/07/2023

Culture news

How did 'World War II' get its name?

Everyone knows it now as World War II, but was that always going to be the case?

28/04/2023

Culture news

African war veterans win battle against France for full pension rights

African veterans who fought for France can now stay in their home-countries and receive pension benefits. The unfair treatment of Africans who fought in French uniform is documented in Omar Sy's latest movie, Father and Soldier.

05/01/2023

No Comment

UK Remembrance Sunday

UK Remembrance Sunday. King Charles III led Armistice Day service for the first time as monarch as the nation remembers its war dead.

14/11/2022

Travel News

The new underwater drone hunting unexploded mines off Belgium's coast

The underwater drone called Remus is able to explore and map shallow waters off Belgium's coast where conventional ships cannot go.

06/09/2022

Culture news

Was the 'sleeping sickness' from 'The Sandman' a real pandemic?

Truth, it's often said, is stranger than fiction. The neurological illness affected people across the world during World War I.

27/08/2022

Art

Germany's 'sober' interwar art movement takes centre stage in Paris

The exhibition at the Pompidou Centre takes in the 900 works by a Weimar Republic arts and culture movement that would later be labelled 'degenerate' by the Nazis.

14/05/2022

Belgium

Watch: Armistice ceremonies return to normal after COVID disruption

Armistice Day events were held around Europe, 103 years since the end of the First World War.

11/11/2021

My Europe Series

WWI was meant to be the war that ended all wars. It wasn't.

H.G. Wells predicted in 1914 that the First World War would usher in a new world order.

11/11/2021

World

Commemorating 100 years of the Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion will recreate the moment of its creation at an event at the Cenotaph. "Since that moment in May 1921, the Legion has been working tirelessly for the rights of the armed forces community in Britain," Royal British Legion spokesman Alex Owen said.

14/05/2021

World News

Australia and New Zealand commemorate war dead on Anzac Day

Australia and New Zealand commemorate their war dead as Anzac Day services take place 106 years after the Gallipoli landings

25/04/2021

World News

Armenia remembers the victims of mass killings by Turkey in 1915

The US is preparing to recognise the killings as genocide.

24/04/2021

No Comment

Moments of silence in France and UK commemorate end of World War I

Armistice Day commemorates the November 11, 1918 armistice that ended World War I.

11/11/2020