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The only Victoria Cross medal ever to be awarded to an English professional footballer has gone on display in his home county. 2nd Lt Donald Simpson Bell, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was given ...

The P-1000 Ratte was a proposed German super heavy tank weighing around 1000 tons and armed with naval artillery. Conceived ...

A hospital in southern France triggered a high-level security response after doctors discovered a World War I-era artillery shell during an emergency procedure. The incident unfolded in the early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm not here to yuck on anyone's yum or disrespect the French, but sometimes it's hard not to when a story like this comes across ...

A man sparked an evacuation at a French hospital after doctors discovered an eight-inch-long live World War I artillery shell in his rectum. The unnamed 24-year-old rushed to the Rangueil Accident and ...

A French hospital was reportedly forced to evacuate in dramatic scenes after medical staff discovered an unexploded WW1 artillery shell stuck in a man’s rectum. On Saturday, bomb disposal experts were ...