German authorities have evacuated a central area of the eastern city of Dresden after an unexploded Second World War-era bomb was found during construction work.

People in the Polish capital are holding a day of commemorations on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The post-Second World War generations let the good times roll too long, and John Lloyd asks if younger people will be forgiving if a myriad of threats aren’t taken seriously.

Hungary's collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War was a "mistake" and a "sin" as it failed to protect its Jewish community, prime minister Viktor Orban has said.

At Cork World Book Fest, Anne Sebba will read from her account of the difficult line females had to tread in Paris in WWII, writes Colette Sheridan.

Files on the French resistance, communists and Jews hunted by the collaborationist Vichy government in France during the Second World War are now accessible to the public.

The newly-crowned Miss Italy has been ridiculed for telling the contest judges that she would have liked to have lived through the Second World War.

75 years on, Ryle Dwyer examines the German spy landings that rocked the Dingle Peninsula and the British secret service.

South Korea has expressed deep regret that Japan’s leader did not repeat his predecessors’ apologies for the country’s aggression during the Second World War.

A Second World War bomb discovered in the London area has been safely detonated by Army explosives experts.