Arno Lustiger, who died in Frankfurt on 15 May at the age of 88, was a Holocaust survivor and scholar who will be remembered for his research on Jewish resistance to the Nazis and on Gentiles who helped save Jews from the Holocaust.

Members of England's Euro 2012 squad will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz when they travel to Poland ahead of next month's European Championship.

Moscow backing of Assad leaves hopes for united front in tatters

Prosecutors today were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

It is in the nature of many great novels to create worlds of their own, entire ecosystems that may be wildly different from the reader's own experience and are yet so vivid as to become real. The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis is one such.

It's June 2010. I sit on a brick wall in Butare, Rwanda, posing for a photo. One arm is around the young man I call my son, Mark Bizimana, the other, around his fiancée, Pascaline Nyiranzayino. Behind us a lawn grows thick with lush grass framed by plantings of shrubs and fruit trees. The morning sun sparkles on our skin, its warmth spreading through us. Mark is not my flesh and blood, nor have we gone through official proceedings to adopt him, but I have travelled across two continents to rejoice as any mother would at his wedding. We smile into the camera; the shutter clicks.

Survival International's campaign, backed by the actor Colin Firth, seeks to protect the life and lands of Brazil's Awa people

They gathered by the tens of thousands, aiming to face down terror with the power of music.

Anders Behring Breivik claimed that questions about his mental health were part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology yesterday as he attempted to prove he is not insane during the trial into his bombing and shooting spree in Norway last year.

Some tourists go for a cheesy picture next to the Pyramid of Skulls at Phnom Penh's Killing Fields. Others opt for a tour of Kigali's genocide war memorials. Or, students of the macabre can join a walking tour following the footsteps of US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Friends and relatives of the 77 people massacred by Norway's anti-Islamic gunman Anders Behring Breivik reacted with horror and disgust yesterday as the killer boasted in court that his twin terrorist attacks were "spectacular" feats and that, given the chance, he would do it all again.

Prosecutors pressed mass killer Anders Breivik for details about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to on the third day of his trial for the massacre of 77 people.

Dismay as gunman is given chance to hail his own 'spectacular attack' on first day of testimony

There was only one dramatic moment when Anders Behring Breivik seemed to crack yesterday.