The leader of a mob that killed six people in Duisburg, Germany, in 2007, that shed international light on the ’ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, has been jailed for life today.

A SPOKESPERSON for Jessica Kürten and her husband Eckard yesterday said the couple categorically rejected that there are doubts concerning the welfare of Georgina Forbes’s horses.

An Austrian bishop described the techno festival that led to 21 deaths and 500 injuries as a sinful event and indirectly linked the deaths to God’s punishment.

Thousands of mourners watched in tears today as German rescue workers lit one white candle for each of the 21 people crushed to death in a tunnel at the Love Parade techno music festival.

A memorial service was held today for 21 people who were crushed to death at the Love Parade techno music festival in Germany.

THE mayor of the German city of Duisburg resisted calls yesterday to quit after a panicked stampede at the Love Parade music festival left 19 people dead and more than 500 injured.

The death toll at a weekend music festival in Germany rose to 20 today after a woman died from her injuries.

German chancellor Angela Merkel promised an “intense” investigation into the deaths of 19 people at a techno music festival as witnesses put the blame on police and security staff.

THE head of a police union warned German authorities 12 months ago that the Love Parade in Duisburg at which 19 people died was an accident waiting to happen.

ANGRY survivors demanded answers from organisers after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade and prosecutors launched an inquiry into how the tragedy unfolded.

THE death toll rose to 19 yesterday and police said that 340 had been injured in a panicked crush of partygoers in an overcrowded tunnel that served as the sole entrance to a German festival billed as the world’s largest techno music party.

The death toll in a stampede at the annual Love Parade festival in Germany has risen to 19, police said today.

A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 15 people dead and dozens injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany today.

THOUSANDS of Italian police took part in a huge operation against a powerful crime syndicate yesterday, arresting 300 people including top bosses and seizing millions in property.

Thousands of Italian police took part in a huge operation against a powerful crime syndicate today, arresting 300 people including top bosses and seizing millions in property.

A 90-YEAR-OLD former SS sergeant who was No 4 on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects has died before he could be brought to trial, German authorities said.

GERMAN prosecutors yesterday charged a 90-year-old former member of Hitler’s SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.

A 90-year-old former member of the SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the 1945 killings of Jewish forced labourers in Austria.

THREE men have been arrested in Germany over a failed attempt to blackmail the country’s richest woman, BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, prosecutors said.

A hitman wanted for killing six people in a bloody feud between Mafia clans was arrested today near Amsterdam.

Italian and German police arrested four suspected members of organised crime clans today believed to be involved in the killing of six Italians in Germany.

POLICE arrested 32 suspected mafiosi yesterday and were hunting for eight others linked to a mob feud blamed for the execution-style killings of six Italians in Germany.

Italian police were arresting scores of suspects today in a crackdown on organised crime clans believed to be involved in a feud that claimed the lives of six Italians in Germany earlier this month.

The bodies of three of the six victims of last week’s Mafia killings in Germany have arrived in Italy, as authorities debated how to handle security at the funerals amid fears of new mob violence.

Six Italian men were shot dead in a western German city today in an execution-style killing that Italy's interior minister said appeared to be part of a feud between two Italian organised crime clans.

Italy’s ANSA news agency has said the six victims of this morning's fatal shootings in Duisburg in Germany appeared to be from the "ndragheta"s Pelle-Romeo clan.

Six Italian men were found fatally shot in the western German city of Duisburg early today, police said.

Six young men were found fatally shot in the western German city of Duisburg early today, police said.

Bolton’s Idal Tal got the ball rolling, netting in the 19th minute, with star striker Roberto Colautti heading in number two before half-time.

Italy coach Marcello Lippi today described the World Cup semi-final extra-time win over Germany “as the most important game of my life”.

ITALY coach Marcello Lippi has urged the country’s disaffected fans to get behind their team ahead of their World Cup opener against Ghana tonight.

Tomas Repka has rejected the opportunity to play Champions League football to agree a new two-year deal with West Ham.

IRELAND’S lightweight men’s four took second place and a silver medal at the World Cup regatta in Munich on Saturday.

A GERMAN priest has developed a novel way to brew beer — in a washing machine.