Large areas of the city center of Cologne were closed off on Wednesday as experts prepared to defuse three bombs left over from World War II, which ended 80 years ago. The evacuation operation in ...

The German city of Cologne announced that three unexploded bombs from World War II, which were discovered earlier this week ...

The city, in western Germany, is undergoing its biggest ever post-war evacuation after discovery of two 1,000kg and one 500kg American bombs.

Briefing is over and we are now aware of the target and the reason for the raid, the industrial centre of Cologne is to be annihilated. Over 1000 bombers will concentrate the attack from West to ...

A building with a past in Cologne. A former air raid bunker from the Second World War has been converted into a modern home.

COLOGNE, Germany (AP ... Even 80 years after the end of the war, unexploded bombs dropped during wartime air raids are frequently found in Germany. Disposing of them sometimes entails large ...

I well remember the 30th May 1942 the date of the first 1000 Bomber raid on Cologne. To muster 1046 Bombers aircraft from training units had to be used to supplement the operational squadron of ...

Police in the western German city of Cologne have searched several empty apartments in a high-rise after finding the highly toxic substance ricin in one of the apartments late Tuesday. On Thursday ...

Cologne was the first German city to experience a '1,000 bomber raid' by the Royal Air Force during World War Two. Some 1,400 tons of bombs were dropped in a single night on 30 May, 1942.

I well remember the 30th May 1942 the date of the first 1000 Bomber raid on Cologne. To muster 1046 Bombers aircraft from training units had to be used to supplement the operational squadron of ...