Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

In March, a World War II bomb was found near the tracks of Paris' Gare du Nord station. In February, more than 170 bombs were found near a children's playground in northern England.

All three bombs are American-made, but likely dropped by the Royal Air Force, which dropped around 1.5 million bombs in raids on Cologne between 1940 and 1945, some of them with as many as 1,000 ...

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs.

Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war.

Henning Kaiser/DPA Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...