Ceremonies recall end of World War 1

Nov 11 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prince Charles mark 90 years since end of First World War.

They joined the other dignitaries who gathered on Tuesday (November 11) at the site of the battle of Verdun - one of the First World War's most brutal battles which left 300,000 soldiers dead over 300 days of bloody trench warfare. The cemetery at Douaumont is the final resting place for 130,000 unidentified soldiers who fell in the battle.

In London, three of the last surviving members of British forces who served in World War One laid wreaths in memory of their fallen colleagues to mark the Armistice Day. Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, all born during the reign of the UK's Queen Victoria, represented the armed services to which they belonged.

November the 11th in the U.S. is marked as Veterans Day, celebrating the survivors of the nation's 20th and 21st century wars.