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The Big Moment: 'We didn't hear a noise when it crashed. All of a sudden, everything was black'
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Concorde crashes in Paris, Tuesday 25 July 2000
Anger as Pope Pius XII moves closer to sainthood
Monday, 21 December 2009
Robert Mickens: One month before first synagogue visit, Pope Benedict advances case of 'silent' predecessor
Auschwitz sign found
Monday, 21 December 2009
The infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate sign from the former Nazi death camp had been cut into three.
Dutch girl sailor, 14, found in Caribbean
Monday, 21 December 2009
Laura Dekker, the Dutch teenager who went missing after her bid to stage a solo voyage around the world was blocked by a court, has been found in the Caribbean island of St Maarten.
How the Nazis stole Christmas
Monday, 21 December 2009
Tony Paterson: Hitler's followers reinvented Yuletide as a pagan festival – and cast the Führer as the Messiah
Gerry Adams says father was a child abuser
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams revealed his late father subjected family members to emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
Auschwitz theft 'was a professional job'
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Museum director denies any of his staff were involved in stealing 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign
Weak and in pain, but home after 32-day hunger strike
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Weak and in pain, Aminatou Haidar, the award-winning Sahrawi activist expelled by Morocco, has finally returned to her Western Sahara homeland after a 32-day hunger strike among tourists at Lanzarote airport.
Stalin's crude side laid bare
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Shaun Walker reports on the dictator's penchant for adding vicious captions to male nudes
At last, Serbs win passport to freedom
Saturday, 19 December 2009
For 18 years, they have felt like prisoners within their own borders. But today that will all change.
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