McConnell marks Battle of Arnhem
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The first minister pays tribute to the Scottish soldiers who lost their lives at the Battle of Arnhem in a ceremony in Holland.
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In early October 1942, Flight Lieutenant Donald McLarty was shot down over Libya on his 199th mission of World War Two. Although he was flying for Britain's Royal Air Force, his uniform was emblazoned with an unexpected word: Argentina.
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Former Sun Bowl Director Sam Jenkins remembers that 60 years ago today, about a million soldiers began the largest land battle of World War II, a deadly fight known as the Battle of the Bulge and Adolf Hitler&#39;s last offensive to defeat the allies.
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The front line of Australia&#39;s war on terror continues to be fought on Indonesian soil. Last week&#39;s bomb blast outside
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THE body of slain Australian policeman Adam Dunning will be flown back to his hometown of Canberra today following a memorial service at the headquarters of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
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US Sen. Mitch McConnell met with top Israeli officials Sunday and took a helicopter tour over the West Bank during a visit to the Middle East that comes amid the political tumult of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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This week the Netherlands will honor the thousands of mainly British and Polish soldiers who took part in the failed attempt to seize a bridgehead north of the Rhine river near Arnhem between September 17 and 23, 1944, a tragic episode in the Allied advance on Germany.
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Britain's Prince Philip and saber-waving cavalry re-enactors commemorated the charge of the Light Brigade on Monday, 150 years after the doomed British assault against Russian cannons in a Crimean War battle immortalized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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He&#39;s recalling the bitterly cold weather and the sounds of battle 60 years ago when a major battle was fought in Belgium. &quot;I don&#39;t like loud noises,&quot; said Watson, then a 19-year-old squad leader in the 87th Division.
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Australia's parliament opened with a landmark Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as a dramatic symbol of the new government's pledge to right injustices of the past.
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Hundreds of veterans march over a landmark Dutch bridge to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem.
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A tribute to 14 servicemen killed in a Nimrod crash will be held at Scotland's biggest military airshow.
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David Hicks, whose restlessness took him from skinning kangaroos in Australia&#39;s outback to fighting for Islamic armies throughout Europe and Asia, appeared
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Australia kicked off their European tour with a 31-14 defeat of Scotland at Murrayfield but the gloss was taken off the result by a stirring second-half fightback from the Scots.
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Sloping off: Nathan Deakes walks with one foot off the ground after his disqualification from the men&#39;s 50km walk. Photo: AP Picture:MARK BAKER.
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Details of events to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar are announced on Lord Nelson's 246th birthday.
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Political leaders paid their respects to Britain&#39;s war dead in the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph yesterday. The leaders of the government and opposition parties were joined