The French national railway’s bid to win America’s first high-speed rail contract will face the fury of Holocaust survivors today over the company’s role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

A FRENCH resistance heroine who saved over 100 lives has died at her English care home aged 105.

PARACHUTISTS dropped from the sky over Normandy yesterday to remember British servicemen who made the first landings on D-Day, 65 years ago.

US President Barack Obama was seeing for homself the horrors of a concentration camp today during a visit to Germany.

President Barack Obama will fly into Egypt today where he will deliver a high-profile speech aimed at building bridges with the Muslim world.

A German coffee chain has dropped an advertising campaign that featured a slogan used by the Nazis on the entrance gate to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

IT IS the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world.

US president George Bush arrived at Israel’s official Holocaust memorial today, visiting exhibits that detail the Nazi extermination of European Jews.

Actor George Clooney has told the UN’s most powerful body that if it does not send peacekeepers to Sudan’s Darfur region millions of people would die in what he called the first genocide of the 21st century.

The German government has “the utmost interest” in seeing fugitive Nazi concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim face justice, an official said today.

A NAZI war criminal known as Doctor Death for his experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during WWII is reported to have been found in Spain.

UKRAINIAN president Viktor Yushchenko, who visited Auschwitz yesterday, recalled his father’s ordeal in the death camp he described as a “sacred place” for him and his family.

“EVERYONE shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person.” So runs article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a beacon of hope after an era of barbarism.

Hungarian Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize in literature today for writing that “upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”.