Tanks Tanks were used for the first time at ... The British army started an offensive in the trenches near the river Somme, forcing the German army to divert some of their troops away from Verdun.

The combined attack was commenced beneath cloudless skies at 7.30 a.m. on Friday, July 1st, along a 25 mile stretch bordering the River Somme in France. It comes in the wake of a major bombardment ...

A huge below-ground storage tank of 160,000 litres has been installed to reduce the chance of sewage overflowing into a river. Wessex Water has invested £2m into the scheme in Bradford on Avon ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. About 100,000 Allied soldiers went "over the top" to face the German army in the valley of the River Somme. Somerset artist Rob ...

The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

A Nazi tank expected to be worth ‘a fortune’ has been hauled out of a river in Poland, nearly 80 years after the end of World War Two. For decades, rumours swirled that the Nazis had lost ...

The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia. It is Australia's leading think tank, providing high-quality research and distinctive ...

A septic tank should be pumped regularly, or else it can cause your home’s entire wastewater system to back up. However, the septic tank can be difficult to spot if you don’t know where it was ...

Celebrations are taking place in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the opening of a bridge built with funds raised ...

It has thousands of staff, some of whom give briefings to the ruling Politburo. Among “think-tanks with Chinese characteristics” that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, says he wants to foster ...