5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (599+ words) If these difficult times are any guide, it is the individuals who experience the crimes against humanity that take place in war who are the most effective at communicating the experience. This intense and powerful new documentary film is an…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (389+ words) President of the Cobar RSL sub-branch in the NSW Central West, Gordon Hill, spent 19 years in the Army Reserve. On Remembrance Day, he said it was vital that Australians understood what war was truly about - and the lasting impact it…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (412+ words) Egypt has reopened a tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The huge tomb…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (273+ words) US President Donald Trump has announced that he has ordered the declassification and public release of all government records about aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world. Trump on Friday said it's an…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1240+ words) Deep in the dense overgrown jungles of New Guinea, the eyes and ears of World War II allied soldiers faced a greater danger than the Japanese warplanes that flew overhead. It rained most days and poured almost every night, turning…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (315+ words) A humble bottle of beer now stands in the nation's war memorial, more than 80 years after it was bought as a promise of enduring friendship. Aussie WWII soldiers, Stan Lewis and Fred Hume, were shipping off with the 2/30th Infantry Battalion…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1050+ words) Many of the victims had their clothes burned off and their flesh hung from their faces and limbs. They moaned in pain. Because of poor medicine and care, only a few hundred were alive when the field hospital closed August…...