Peter Jackson gets over the gain line, behind the headline

I have friends in Barcelona, and when we go there, a must-see with them is the traditional dances and music outside of the parliament building on the square.

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The Vatican has recognised the “moral courage” of an Irish priest who helped save thousands of Jewish people and Allied PoWs from the Nazis during the Second World War in occupied Rome.

Though mostly victims of World War II, the Poles were also the perpetrators of violence against Jews, culminating in the Jedwabne massacre when Jewish residents of the town were burned alive, as Geoffrey Roberts recounts.

MADELAINE Nerson MacNamara nursed a dream of becoming a poet when she was in her teens.

Narrator Aron is a wild young Jewish boy in the Warsaw ghettos. 

Germany’s BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online has reported, highlighting the scale of spying co-operation which has unleashed a political row.

Germany has halted its internet surveillance for the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency’s co-operation with Washington.

German conservatives warned their Social Democrat (SPD) partners not to score points in a row over the activities of the BND intelligence agency after an attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel by the SPD chief threatened unity in the coalition.

Concentration camp survivor Tomi Reichental has turned his childhood horror into something positive, speaking out against racism and tracking down Nazis, writes Ailín Quinlan

A councillor expelled by Ukip after saying she had a problem with “negroes” has insisted she is not racist and did not regret making the comments.

With respect to Dolan O’Hagan (‘Political point scoring does a disservice to Máiria Cahill’, October 22) nobody doubts what Derry was like in the 1980s but most of the destruction of the city and its social order was wrought by the Provos.

Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has been honoured for his heroism and his remarkable mission to promote reconciliation.

LAST month, during a walking tour of Béthune in northern France, our guide recalled the work of a Cork woman, Kate McCarthy, who nursed wounded soldiers during both world wars. Her niece, Sr Breda McCarthy of the Loreto Convent in Bray, told me this extraordinary woman’s story.

Germany is investigating a suspected US spy in its military days after the arrest of a member of its foreign intelligence agency as a double agent tested US relations already strained by espionage.

Germany’s top public prosecutor has launched an investigation into the bugging of Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by US intelligence in the light of revelations by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, authorities announced last night.

I’M COUNTING down the days until my trip to Notre Dame University, Indiana, where I’m to attend my son’s graduation.

Otto De Kat (translated by Ina Rilke)

IT’S 8.30pm, and the inaugural visit to our daughter in Barcelona is under way. My husband and I have walked around the city for seven hours straight.

I HAVE two Annes — one that belongs to me, and one that belongs to the world”.

The Messiah of Stockholm

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Adolf Hitler’s rise to power 80 years ago should go on reminding Germans that democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted.

Richard Fitzpatrick rounds up his top tomes of the year

The oldest known former prisoner of the Auschwitz death camp has died in Poland at the age of 108.

The family of Michaela McAreavey has labelled the publication of crime scene photographs of her body as “reprehensible” and “a new low” in the treatment of her husband and family.

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler intervened to prevent a Jewish First World War veteran being sent to a death camp, a German Jewish newspaper has reported.

A statue is to be erected in Killarney commemorating Second World War hero Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who risked his life to save over 6,500 Jewish people and British POWs from the Nazis in German-occupied Rome.

A father is to write to a judge who dismissed charges of negligence against a creche owner after his little boy was left behind by staff on an outing.

Josef Albers explored our changing perceptions of colour in his art. He considered tricks of the eye sacred, says Tina O’Sullivan

Tom Hanks is being lined up for a role in 'In the Garden of Beasts'.

YOUNG, vibrant, enthusiastic and rarin’ to go.

IT’S THE weekend, I’m scoured, showered and powdered, rightly dickied up for dinner, but I don’t quite know where to settle for my pre-prandial libation in Sandbrook House, a fine old country home built back in the early 1700s on the Carlow-Wicklow border.

NANCY WAKE, Australia’s greatest World War II heroine and a prominent figure in the French Resistance known as the “The White Mouse” for her ability to evade the Germans, has died in London.

Hide and Seek

LAST year was the year of baby James.

GERMANY’S BND intelligence agency knew as early as 1952 that Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Buenos Aires, a report said.

Germany’s BND intelligence agency knew as early as 1952 that Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Buenos Aires, a report said.

A KNEE-HIGH wall, a rusty gate, the brick foundations of razed buildings – such are crumbling remnants of the Nazi empire in the heart of Berlin known by historians as the “centre of evil”.