The world, in perspective.

Police have detained a suspect after a fire erupted at a historic Nazi mountain retreat known as "Eagle's Nest" in Germany.

A man was arrested on allegations he decapitated a World War II statue at an Iwo Jima Memorial in Quantico, Virginia, this week using a sledgehammer. Charlie D'Agata reports.

Engineers sprang into action amid concern that an 82-year-old WWII shipwreck's crumbling masts could topple and set off its 1,500-ton sunken explosives payload.

There have been so many films about World War II, both during and after, with so many different takes and personal stories told, that now, 81 years since it ended, it is hard to imagine finding a fresh way to say anything new. But with his film adaptation of Buzz Bissinger’s bestselling book, filmmaker Peter […]

The globe was especially notable because it had green pen or marker notations where Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower marked areas in Europe, three U.S. officials said.

The remains of a downed Soviet fighter plane from World War II were uncovered recently in a remote Hungarian town, officials said.