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Barack Obama to mark D-Day in France

US President Barack Obama will travel to France on June 6 to attend commemorations of the Second World War D-Day landings....

Mr Obama will travel to the Normandy coast for events marking the 65th anniversary of the allied invasion, said President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff, Claude Gueant.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)