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Jean Jülich, who has died in his native Cologne aged 82, was one of the last surviving Edelweiss Pirates, the working class German teenagers who ran wild in the ruins of the city during the last years of the Third Reich. By 1944 as many as five thousand tearaways were living as outlaws in Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt and in the heavily bombed cities of the Rhine and Ruhr valleys. Known sometimes as Navajos, Ruhrpiraten, Harlem-Club or even Meuten [wolf packs], they were usually under military age and had evaded the compulsory Hitler youth organisations.

The body which represents the British music industry has written to BT asking it to block the popular filesharing site Pirate Bay, just one day after the company put in place its enforced block on NewzBin2.

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British government under pressure to act as economic costs of Indian Ocean attacks mount

A British holidaymaker abducted from a Kenyan beach resort is thought to be in the captivity of Somali pirates after a member of a gang claimed responsibility for the kidnap.

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Now 85, Elmore Leonard has written 45 novels in 60 years. "I have friends who have written more than a hundred," he says, citing Donald Westlake, the fellow crime writer who died in 2008.

The threat of piracy has forced one of the top events in world yachting to change route to protect the competitors from the possibility of kidnap or murder.

Pirate attacks off West Africa's coast have increased to levels that rival those seen in Somalia, insurers say, prompting maritime agencies to discuss setting aside their rivalries to fight the rising threat.

An alleged pirate used his mobile phone in Somalia to surf online for information about an American family that had been hijacked on their yacht and calculate what ransom to demand, according to US court papers.

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