Several American fighter jets have been deployed to a secretive UK-US base in the Indian Ocean to protect assets there, according to reports. Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands which the UK...
Firefighters and member of public die in blaze at business park2 hours agoIndy Almroth-Wright & Ethan GudgeBBC News, South of EnglandTwo firefighters and a member of the public have died in a...
Russian troops appear to be amassing on the Finnish border, a chilling move that has escalated fears of a global conflict. New satellite images have shown increased Russian military activity near...
Russian President Vladimir Putin ignited fears of a potential World War 3 with the announcement that the world's most lethal nuclear missile was undergoing active testing seven years ago, yet...
Donald Trump is expected to arrive in the UK as his plane is scheduled to refuel at a US airbase. Flight restrictions around RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk indicate the US president's Air Force One jet...
The Catholic Church chose its new leader, thus succeeding the Argentine Jorge Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, who died on April 21. On May 8, the new pontiff was chosen, Robert Francis...
'My brother died in Lockerbie - our story changed how air disasters are handled'7 hours agoHelen BushbyCulture reporterGetty ImagesRichard Monetti was aged just 20 when he was flying home to New York...
Satellite images show B-52 bombers at the US Naval base on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean as President Donald Trump continues to mount pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.Two long-range...
George Dunn,102, flew a total of 44 operations over Nazi Germany (Image: -)They have grown old and age has wearied them, unlike the young men shot out of the skies of occupied Europe in the Second...
VE Day at 80: What's to come - and what you might have missed3 hours agoRosemary McCabeBBC JournalistGetty ImagesVE Day marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Huge crowds took to the streets on 8...
VE Day at 80: What's to come - and what you might have missed5 minutes agoRosemary McCabeBBC JournalistGetty ImagesVE Day marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Huge crowds took to the streets on...
Second black smoke signal as conclave continues Black smoke has risen from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel for the second time, meaning cardinals in the conclave have not yet decided on a successor...
Sophie Raworth's father, Richard, passed away just days before she led the BBC's VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations. The 56 year old newsreader concealed her personal grief as her beloved father...
On May 8 1945, Peter Marshall, a 20-year old Wireless Operator on Lancaster bombers was on a training sortie. As they headed back to base, he was twiddling the controls of his radio set and came...
It was the moment we had all been waiting for — thousands of heads turned in unison as 13 of the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows soared over the crowd, painting the sky red, white and blue. A grey...
Royals watch Red Arrows flypast for VE Day 80th anniversary3 hours agoRuth Comerford & André Rhoden-PaulBBC NewsFour generations of the Royal Family appeared on Buckingham Palace's balcony to...
Viewers were convinced Keir Starmer was blanked by Queen Camilla during the VE Day ceremony, which is currently being broadcast to the nation.A snippet of live coverage showed the Prime Minister...
In March 1940, in an unremarkable Birmingham University office, German-born physicist Rudolf Peierls and his Austrian-born colleague Otto Robert Frisch wrote a memorandum. In it they argued that a...
Britain will come together to commemorate VE Day’s 80th anniversary tomorrow with the Red Arrows set to arc across the skies. The date saw Nazi Germany officially defeated in 1945 as World War 2...
A historic World War II Spitfire dramatically crash-landed in a Kent field while “practising for a VE Day event”. The aircraft plunged into a farmer’s crops after it was seen circling “for a...