Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged today with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Police in Cambodia detained the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge today over his role in the notorious regime that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie toured a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum, during a surprise visit to Cambodia.

Judges and prosecutors from Cambodia and foreign countries were today sworn in to begin the UN-backed judicial process to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is funding a programme to donate cows to poverty-stricken Cambodian farmers.