As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would be ...

Joe Sacco takes a unique look at one of history’s bloodiest battles. On July 1, 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, British forces suffered almost 60,000 casualties, including 21,000 ...

Full coverage of the commemorations marking 100 years since the Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme was fought between 1 July and 18 November 1916, with over a million British, French and ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin University. At exactly 7.30 in the morning, 100 years ago today, thousands of British soldiers went “over the top” towards enemy lines in the lowlands ...

“It was hell let loose, brother,” said one survivor, in an archive recording. “Hell let loose.” At 7:28 a.m. on July 1, 1916, hundreds of whistles sounded, and the first troops climbed out of their ...

Dawn broke over the trenches, and by nightfall, tens of thousands lay silent. The Somme revealed the terrible cost of courage in a modern war.

French President Francois Hollande (center left) arrives in Thiepval along with Britain's Prince Harry (left) and Prince William and his wife, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, to attend the Somme ...

It was one of the bloodiest battles in British history, which wiped out thousands of men in a single day and left a nation in mourning. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can ...

Residents across Pakistan and India rushed to stockpile foods and other essential supplies, while families living near the border fled to safer areas, as armed clashes between the nuclear-armed ...