Nine schools, 58 hotels, a hospital, the main city hall and the area close to Cologne's famous UNESCO-listed cathedral are among the numerous places temporarily off limits. Two shelters have been ...

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.

A rare, up-close look at Alpena's "Little Red" lighthouse. Believed to be the only one of this style in the United States, this skeletal, steel beacon has guided Lake Huron mariners safely to port ...

06/04/2025 June 4, 2025. Buildings across the center of the western city of Cologne were evacuated after the discovery of three World War II bombs. Some 20,000 people had been under evacuation orders.

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Around 20,000 people are being urgently evacuated from their homes in Cologne, Germany, after three unexploded Second World War bombs were discovered.. After the city undergoes its largest postwar ...

The area close to the UNESCO-listed Cologne Cathedreal, known as the tallest twin-spired cathedral in the world, is near the radius. Specifically, there are two 1,000kg bombs and a 500kg bomb, the ...

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs.

Thousands of people were evacuated from central Cologne in western Germany on Wednesday following the discovery of three wartime bombs, in what the city authority called the largest such operation ...

A person works by a cordoned off area near the Cologne Cathedral, after the discovery of World War II-era bombs during exploratory work, affecting over 20,000 people, who had to be evacuated on ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — More than 20,000 residents were being evacuated from part of Cologne’s city center on Wednesday as specialists prepared to defuse three unexploded U.S. bombs from Worl… ...