Bombs left over from the two world wars are regularly discovered around France but it is very rare to find them in such a people-packed location.

6:15am. In the cold of February, a Kalashnikov shootout shook the Gare du Midi district in Brussels (Belgium). There were no injuries, but the police in the Belgian capital are on a manhunt.

The discovery of a huge, unexploded World War II-era bomb near the tracks of Paris’ busiest railway station has caused major ...