Marta Wise was ill and emaciated when she heard the distant sound of soldiers marching toward Auschwitz.

An out-of-control wildfire has forced the evacuation of Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.

MIEP GIES, the woman who hid the Dutch youngster Anne Frank’s diary from the Nazis to become one of the world’s most-read books, has died after a brief illness at the age of 100.

Israel released 61 Palestinian detainees today in what it called a “confidence-building measure” as US Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged leaders on both sides to move forward on a new blueprint for Mideast peace.

FBI investigators were today probing an attack at Los Angeles International Airport during which a lone gunman shot two people dead.