Cruise commemorates anti-Hitler heroes
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Tom Cruise and the crew of his new film, "Valkyrie," held a minute of silence for German anti-Nazi heroes as the team prepared to film at the site where they were executed, a fellow cast member said in comments published Sunday.
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Sixty-three years after the sneak attack that plunged the United States into World War II, hundreds of men who died aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma are finally getting their own special tribute.
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The Microsoft researcher, who disappeared at sea a year ago, will be honored by colleagues at a day-long event in May.
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Services are due to be held across Scotland to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the two world wars.
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It was more than just the historic  settings in Berlin that drew Tom Cruise to Germany last summer  to film his $80 million epic "Valkyrie" about a failed 1944  attempt to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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A memorial service will be held near the Faslane naval base today for the sailor who died on the stricken Canadian submarine the Chicoutimi.
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Two hot-button issues in Germany &#151; the Nazi era and Scientology &#151; are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country's most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin.
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American superstars Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host December's traditional Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, organizers told the AP Wednesday.
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Ten years after the car ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people, ceremonies this week will commemorate Europe's worst post-war maritime disaster amidst calls for a new probe into the accident.
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A biography of Tom Cruise focuses on his religious beliefs.
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Germany seeks to restrict far-right rallies ahead of sensitive WWII anniversary events.
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Poland's navy said a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea is almost certainly Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier &#151; the Graf Zeppelin, which disappeared nearly 60 years ago.
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Paul Goodyear, 86, of Casa Grande, Ariz., shows where he was stationed as a signalman aboard the USS Oklahoma after the dedication ceremony for teh ships new exhibit at the USS Arizona Memoal Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 6. 2004.
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More than 60 years after a group of German officers tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler, international recognition that has eluded them for years may soon be on its way -- despite resistance from within Germany.
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Connections or references to Nazis that have occasionally embarrassed Britain's royal family:
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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Prince Harry is considering invitations from Jewish groups to visit the Auschwitz death camp, a royal spokeswoman said Friday, while Britons debated whether his wearing a swastika armband at a costume party has ...