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Prehistoric mammoth skeleton found in northern Siberia Berlin Candy Bomber beats back COVID-19 Gail Halvorsen, the pilot who was known and loved by German children in the late 1940s as the Candy Bomber, mostly recovered from the coronavirus, his daughter told German media on Thursday. Halvorsen, who lives in the US state of Utah and recently turned 100 years of age, has a cough but is otherwise doing "very well," Denise Williams said. The former pilot became famous after the end of World War II, when US, British and Allied pilots made hundreds of thousands of deliveries of groceries and suppl...

ICYMI: Stories to put a smile on your face dw.com 1/8/2021 dw.com From a WWII hero battling back the coronavirus to Ice Age rhinos in Siberia. Here's a selection of positive stories from around the world that you might have missed over the festive period. © picture-alliance/dpa/W. Kumm Gail Halvorsen, the face of the Berlin Airlift, has recovered from COVID-19 Germany achieves its 2020 climate targets Germany's carbon emissions during last year were down by 42.3% over 1990 levels, according to analysis by Berlin-based think tank Agora Energiewende. Agora attributes two t...

A cache of First World War love letters found in a charity shop is set to be reunited with the family of the woman who received them more than 100 years ago. The Sue Ryder charity launched a campaign on Monday to find the family of Mary Fortune after letters to her from her husband George, in the Durham Light Infantry, were found in one of their stores in Fulwell, Sunderland. Now they are set to be returned to David Bambrough, who came forward to identify himself as the great-grandson of Mary’s brother after being alerted to the letters via “random people” on the genealogy website Ances...

A relative of a World War One soldier has spoken of his delight at the discovery of lost love letters the soldier sent home to his wife before he was killed in the Battle of the Somme.  The letters, found in a donated sewing box at a charity shop in Fulwell, Sunderland, were addressed to a Mrs Mary Fortune from her husband George Ernest, who served in the Durham Light Infantry.  Mr Ernest was then killed on the Somme between July and November 1916, the bloodiest battle fought on the Western Front which resulted in 420,000 British casualties including 125,000 deaths. A section of one letter ...

BBC News Published image captionDavid Bambrough is a keen family historian and said he was "quite emotional" at the discovery The family of a World War One soldier killed in battle say they are delighted at the discovery of love letters written by their ancestor. The appeal reached David Bambrough, from Sunderland, whose great grandfather was Mary's brother. The letters will be returned to the family in due course. Mr Bambrough said George and Mary had one daughter, Marjorie, who was only a few months old when her father was killed aged 27. She died childless in 2003 and her possessions were ...