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A king of the Big Band era, trombonist Glenn Miller and his orchestra charmed the world in the 1930s and 1940s with hits like “Moonlight Serenade” and “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”. After war broke out, Miller enlisted in the Army as an officer at age 38 and boosted morale with his [...]

Fuelled only by used cooking fat, eight teams completed a 2,500-mile car rally from London to Athens on Wednesday in a bid to promote awareness of cheap and environmentally-friendly bio-fuels. The “Grease to Greece” race, the brainchild of 34-year-old Londoner Andy Pag, took the teams on [...]

Three vast tunnels were opened under central Berlin this month, giving a glimpse of Adolf Hitler’s megalomaniac vision of a new architectural centre for the capital of Nazi Germany. The 16-metre (50-foot) deep tunnels were constructed in 1938 as part of an underground transport network beneath [...]