AUSTRALIA and the Netherlands yesterday joined a growing Western boycott of a United Nations conference on racism over fears it will be used as a platform for unfair criticism of Israel.

An ultraconservative society recently rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI silenced one of its bishops today and distanced itself from his claim that no Jews were gassed during the Second World War.

CHELSEA have distanced themselves from reports suggesting coach Avram Grant is at the centre of a race-hate campaign.

Russia has launched a satellite for Israel that the Israelis say will be used to spy on Iran’s nuclear programme.

BLUE and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence yesterday between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

BLUE and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence yesterday between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Blue and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence today between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Germany’s parliament today remembered the victims of the Nazis, and the parliament president said the Iranian leader’s recent dismissal of the Holocaust demonstrates “how much not only we Germans” need to keep its memory alive.