Officials said the explosion was caused by a World War II US bomb that remained buried all these years. × CCTV footage showed an aeroplane was just 100 metres away from the explosion site.

A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during ...

The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said. The chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for nearly 80 years at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki. The bomb that created ...

A huge crater is all that is left after a 500kg (1,100lb) German World War Two bomb was exploded in Newtownards. The bomb was detonated in a controlled exposion on Tuesday after it was found four ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be left over from World War II on a ...

The explosion of a World War II bomb unearthed during construction works took place on the railroad tracks and could be heard from several kilometers away. One of the injured is seriously ill ...

A potentially catastrophic explosion of a World War II-era bomb under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport has prompted the government to undertake an urgent search for unexploded ordnance at airports ...

A German air raid on the SS Richard Montgomery lead to the ship sinking, taking 1,400 tons of American-made bombs to the ...

The government began the surveys at Miyazaki Airport on Kyushu, the southernmost of the country’s four main islands, after a World War II-era bomb exploded in October. A survey will begin Monday ...

Using "bomb maps" from the war, the museum said it was dropped on 22 or 23 April, 1941. According to the museum, some 1,362 bombs exploded in the city during the war. Former army bomb disposal ...

The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said. The chance the bomb - at the bottom of a Baltic Sea shipping ...