US President Barack Obama today praised the British Blitz spirit as thousands of veterans, servicemen and their families gathered in Normandy to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

US President Barack Obama was seeing for homself the horrors of a concentration camp today during a visit to Germany.

LEADERS from more than a dozen countries yesterday put aside disputes over Iraq to thank the Allied forces who fought one of the most decisive military battles ever in the D-Day invasion that broke Nazi Germany's grip on Europe.

US President George Bush is observing today's American holiday Memorial Day with a visit to Normandy, the scene of the D-Day landings 58 years ago.