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.

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.

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

This month, Europe marked two anniversaries that inspire sober reflection. July 11 was the 20th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia.

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.

THERE are many times reading One of Usthat you have to stop. Where your stomach cramps. Where you have to catch a breath. Where tears well up and, sometimes, flow.

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

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik threatened to go on hunger strike for better video games and other perks to alleviate his “torture-like” prison conditions, in a letter received by AFP yesterday.

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.

A teenager accused of planning a repeat of the Columbine massacre was “inspired” by mass shooting spree killers and told a friend on Facebook he wanted to “take some Muslims down”, a British court has heard.

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.

Mass killer Anders Behring-Breivik has been denied permission to attend his mother's funeral in Norway.

The mother of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has died after a long illness.

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.

Norway’s prime minister has apologised in parliament for mistakes in the response to last year’s bomb and gun rampage by Anders Breivik that killed 77 people.

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.

Anders Breivik has said he will not appeal against his prison sentence for the massacre of 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway 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 Breivik has today apologised to “militant nationalists” for not having killed more people in the attacks in July last year.

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.

A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months will end today as confessed mass killer Anders Breivik receives his judgment for attacks that left 77 people dead and more than 200 injured.

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.

Czech Republic police have arrested a man who sympathised with Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik and may have been planning a bomb attack, authorities said at the weekend.

Norway's chief of police has quit following a report which found that police could have prevented all or part of the attacks carried out by Anders Breivik.

Norwegian security services could have prevented all or part of an attack by far-right militant Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun massacre last year, a government commission said yesterday.

The bomb attack by Norwegian Anders Breivik could have been prevented and his gun massacre stopped earlier, according to an official report into the tragedy.

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.

Even if found criminally insane, mass killer Anders Breivik is likely to remain inside the walls of the prison where he has been held since his bomb and gun attacks in July.

The trial of Anders Breivik has ended with the mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb-and-gun rampage that killed 77 people.

The trial of Anders Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb-and-gun rampage that killed 77 people.