BAE Systems signalled the end of an era yesterday as it called time on the historic Vickers Armstrong factory in Newcastle after 165 years of arms manufacture.

Rights groups hail jailing of Liberia's former president for horrific war crimes in Sierra Leone

Paul Fussell, who died on 23 May aged 88, was an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for The Great War and Modern Memory. Over a 50-year career he wrote memoir, literary criticism and social commentary. He made his greatest mark writing about war, a subject he knew well, and his disdain for its romanticisation.

Sixty years on. The Diamond Jubilee has created a moment to ponder the changes that have taken place in Britain over two generations, with one opinion poll at least suggesting that a majority of people feel the country or, rather, countries are a worse place now than in 1952. Yes, we are richer in money terms but, in social terms, many people seem to feel a sense of loss.

Injury robbed the Everton player of a World Cup place but it has handed him a European Championship spot, says Sam Wallace

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.

Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister, has admitted that his office was "overwhelmed" during the Fukushima nuclear meltdown last year, and he recommended that Japan scrap all its reactors to avoid a repeat.

Joan Wood, 83, died from infection after being left without a feeding tube for 10 days, inquest told

An octogenarian Holocaust survivor has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for a novel loosely based on his experiences during the Second World War in which he escaped from a labour camp.

He was one of only two survivors of the 40 sent to clear the Normandy beaches of mines on D-Day

Fêted photographer has died aged 79. Adrian Hamilton pays tribute

The number of civil servants has, interestingly, dropped very substantially under the Coalition. Whether as a result of redefinition or of stripping down, the numbers have fallen since the Brownite high point, from over half a million to a mere 434,000.

Research is being jazzed up too much in the dash for the bestseller lists, says Wolfson judge