IT would not be surprising if Germany, a shining example of how to respond to the refugee crisis, was attacked by a zealot who reached that country a destitute supplicant dependent on a culture he opposed. 

German police last night arrested a 16-year-old friend of the teenager who killed nine people during a shooting rampage in Munich.

Candlelit vigils were held in Munich as the identities of those cut down by a teenage gunman began to emerge.

Gunmen attacked a busy shopping centre in the German city of Munich yesterday evening, spraying bullets as people fled in horror from what police said was a terrorist attack.

Europe’s most notorious mass murderer, Anders Breivik, complained about his treatment in prison and has won his case against the Norwegian government. Relatives of his victims were not so lucky, writes Asne Seierstad

Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court in Oslo ruled.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Government lawyers have accused mass killer Anders Behring Breivik of abusing the country's rule of law as a four-day trial over his prison conditions closes in Norway.

Anders Behring Breivik has told a court that the Norwegian government is trying to kill him by holding him in isolation.

An account of one of the most devastating attacks by a single man in European history is a compelling study of how someone who doesn’t feel accepted by society can turn extreme and evil, writes Eoghan O’Sulllivan.

Video games have long attracted both devotion and scorn. A new book explores this parallel universe many can’t resist, writes Noel Baker.

The civilised Halden prison in Norway prepares inmates for life after jail, writes Jessica Benko

A planned exhibition about the killings of 77 people in 2011 is angering some Norwegians, who fear it will turn into a “hall of fame” for mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.

It is nearly 17 years since terrorist zealots as evil — and as utterly wrong — as those who brought carnage to the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday inflicted an atrocity of similar scale, impact and immorality on the people of Omagh.

The father of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik said he fears his son is becoming even more extreme and dangerous in prison.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer who showed no remorse for killing 77 people in 2011, hugged his mother and apologised for ruining her life before she died of cancer this year, according to a new biography.

Convicted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s application for admission to the University of Oslo’s political science programme has been rejected.

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has applied for admission to the University of Oslo, testing the limits of Norway’s commitment to rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them.

A Norwegian neo-Nazi sympathiser of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested on suspicion of planning “a large terrorist act”, authorities in France said.

CCTV footage of Anders Behring Breivik parking his van and walking off before a massive bomb inside exploded has been shown publicly for the first time.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year, has complained that he is being held in inhumane conditions and is being denied freedom of expression.

The Freemasons have been in Ireland for 300 years and have 22,000 members. Stephen Rogers goes in search of what happens behind the doors of lodges where their meetings take place

The Bell Tower Restaurant, Castlemartyr Resort,

A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months has closed with confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik being declared sane and sent to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and injured 200 others last year.

Any comparison between Lance Armstrong, the 40-year-old Texan stripped of seven Tour de France titles at the end of a decades-long doping scandal, and Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik may seem incongruous but they have at least one thing in common.

Anders Behring Breivik has been convicted of terrorism and premeditated murder for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and sentenced to a special prison term that would allow authorities to keep him locked up for as long as he is considered dangerous.

Anders Behring Breivik has been declared sane and sentenced to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year.

Anders Behring Breivik’s defence lawyers say the confessed mass killer will not appeal if he is sentenced to prison but he will challenge any ruling that declares him insane.

Those expecting Anders Behring Breivik to spend the rest of his days alone in a cramped cell will be disappointed when the far-right fanatic is sentenced on Friday for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year.

Norwegians by the thousands gathered at sombre memorials to the 77 people killed a year ago by far-right gunman Anders Behring Breivik to show his bloody rampage had done nothing to change their dedication to an open society.

Norway is commemorating the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago.

The psychiatrists criticised for deeming Anders Behring Breivik – the self-confessed killer of 77 people in Norway last year – too mentally unfit to go to prison have defended their stance, calling him delusional.

The Norwegian prison where Anders Behring Breivik may be locked up for massacring 77 people will hire people with whom he can socialise, to keep him away from other inmates.

Norwegian police have said they are confident that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik acted on his own in terror attacks last year that killed 77 people and found no evidence that he belonged to a Europe-wide anti-Muslim network.

Former friends of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik say they believe he became depressed as he struggled to accept his sexuality.

Former friends of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik said that some years before the massacre he came across as depressed, expressed feminine tendencies and led some to believe he might be gay.

Anders Behring Breivik screamed a “battle cry” and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot his victims one by one, survivors of the Norwegian far-right killer’s massacre told a court yesterday.