Police: Huge WWII-era Bomb Successfully Defused In Frankfurt

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Bomb disposal experts defused a huge unexploded World War II-era bomb in the German financial capital Frankfurt that forced the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents, police said Sunday.
Hospital patients and the elderly were among those affected in what was Germany’s biggest evacuation in recent history.
Construction workers found the 1.8-ton (4,000-pound) British bomb Tuesday. Officials ordered residents to evacuate homes within a 1.5-kilometer (nearly