SEVENTY years after it began, is there anything new to be written about World War II, which killed six people every second for the six years it lasted?

FORMER enemies and allies sombrely marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II yesterday, underlining the need to remember the bloodiest conflict in the 20th century so as not to repeat it.

More than three million Soviet soldiers are still considered missing from World War II, a general said today - a figure reflecting the enormous scope of the nation's wartime losses.

WORLD leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead.

An emotional wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Soviet War Memorial in London today as the loss of 27 million soldiers and civilians from the former USSR in the Second World War was commemorated.

US President George Bush paid homage today to the “terrible price” paid by World War II soldiers who never came home from their fight against tyranny.

Medal-bedecked Russian Second World War veterans gathered in Moscow today for a parade and parties celebrating the allied victory over Nazi Germany 58 years ago, a moment that still resonates powerfully in a country deeply affected by the war.