HONG KONG - A bomb disposal squad was sent to a Hong Kong hiking trail Friday after a walker found an unexploded World War II-era device near a youth hostel, police said. Officers evacuated 22 people from the hostel and cordoned off the area after the expatriate hiker discovered the Japanese ...

TOKYO (AFP) - A huge unexploded World War II bomb has been found buried near the runway of one of Japan’s busiest regional airports, forcing all flights to be cancelled Tuesday, officials said. A worker rebuilding drainage systems near Sendai Airport — which was swamped by last ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Global trade last year suffered its biggest collapse since World War II, an unprecedented 12 percent drop according to new figures, with worrying signs suggesting 2010 threatens only mediocre recovery. World trade has also been a casualty of the crisis, contracting in volume by ...

LONDON (AFP) - It was cramped, gloomy, the air was thick with cigar smoke and outside, bombs were raining on London. But in their underground bunker, unsung heroes were working tirelessly helping Churchills war Cabinet. Until the end of World War II in 1945, British prime minister Winston Churchill ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A US defence department team has arrived in India to prepare a search for the remains of hundreds of American personnel who went missing over the Himalayan "Hump" during World War II, diplomats and officials said. The team, from the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting ...

Freddy was nine when he emerged from the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. His parents were missing and he was lucky to be adopted by a Jewish couple in the United States. But only now -- more than 60 years after the end of World War II -- has he found out his mother also survived the ...