A German court has convicted 91-year-old John Demjanjuk of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder as a Nazi death camp guard.

A Munich court is poised to deliver its verdict today in the case of John Demjanjuk, the retired US car worker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard, with a ruling that could set new precedent in German law.

A US military historian told the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk that he doubted the retired Ohio car worker’s account of his whereabouts in the last years of the Second World War.

The trial in Germany of an alleged Nazi death camp guard was postponed today after reports the 89-year-old defendant was experiencing health problems.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a willing follower of Hitler, his war crimes trial heard today.

A GERMAN court put John Demjanjuk on trial yesterday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the Munich court of bias.

Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk went on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.

Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk will go on trial in Munich today in a case that breaks new ground in Germany’s pursuit of Holocaust perpetrators.

Security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch.

Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody at Munich's Stadelheim prison.

AN 89-year-old former Nazi death camp guard arrived in Germany yesterday after being deported from the United States to face the prospect of a trial for war crimes over the killing of 29,000 Jews.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

A Russian state television network says Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who sent millions to their deaths in the Great Purge of the 1930s, has been voted the country’s third-greatest historical figure.

Ninety years after he was executed, Tsar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.

An Irish director’s first foray onto the big screen has been awarded at a cult film festival in New York.

LOSING another round in court, John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, may be running out of legal options in his decades-long deportation battle.

The US chief immigration judge said he expected to issue a ruling in 30 days about what to do about an Ohio man who was stripped of his citizenship based on a Justice Department case that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard during the Second World War.

The US Justice Department has asked an immigration judge to deport the man once accused of being notorious Nazi death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible”.

Hurricane Ivan slammed into the southern coast of the United States today, claiming at least 12 lives and causing widespread damage.

A judge today revoked the US citizenship of John Demjanjuk, agreeing with government allegations that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard.