Over 20,000 people are being evacuated in Cologne on 5 June as authorities defuse three unexploded US bombs from World War II ...

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after ...

Cologne city centre after Second World War bombs are discovered - A large part of the German city has been closed off after ...

A defiant resident of Cologne's old city is holding up the defusing of three World War II bombs in the city centre as the ...

Tens of thousands evacuated from German city on Wednesday after wartime bombs were discovered, in largest such operation ...

Authorities in Cologne closed off a large section of the city center Wednesday, evacuating homes and businesses and ...

Authorities in the German city of Cologne have defused three unexploded World War Two bombs after the evacuation of more than ...

The city, in western Germany, is undergoing its biggest ever post-war evacuation after discovery of two 1,000kg and one 500kg ...

Allied nations conducted 262 air raids of Cologne during World War II, killing approximately 20,000 residents and leaving the city in ruins. Nearly all of the buildings in the Old Town were ...

Officials have been going door to door checking that businesses and houses in Cologne's Old Town and Deutz areas are empty. Nine schools, 58 hotels, a hospital, the main city hall and the area ...