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The 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign is unloaded, following it's recovery, from a police vehicle in Krakow

Auschwitz sign was 'stolen for trophy hunters'

Arrested men were professional criminals 'without links to extremists'

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Rescue workers at the site where the Air France Concorde crashed after take-off

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

Pope Pius XII leaves the presidential palace in Berlin in 1927. The controversial former pontiff was moved a step closer to sainthood on Saturday

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

Tourists take pictures underneath the replacement of the sign "Arbeit macht frei" in Auschwitz

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.

Dekker was banned from sailing around the world

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.

The Nazi Iron Cross hangs on a Christmas tree

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.

Tourists take pictures underneath the replacement of the sign "Arbeit macht frei" in Auschwitz

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

The independence campaigner Aminatou Haidar rests at her home in Laayoune, Western Sahara, last night after arriving from Lanzarote

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.

Hate figure: The man in this sketch, by the artist Mikhael Chivilev, was likened by Stalin to Plekhanov, a former comrade. The Soviet leader then leaves this bitter note: 'Why are you calling us back, coward and worm'

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

Vesna Peric Zimonjic with her daughter Bojana in Belgrade's embassy district

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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