A husband who killed his wife with a hammer in Dubai is appealing for his 10-year jail sentence to be reduced, the victim's family has said.

German prosecutors have sought a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, saying his role there made him an accessory to murder.

An Egyptian court sentenced an icon of the 2011 uprising to five years in prison yesterday, in the latest sign of authorities’ determination to stifle dissent in spite of promises by the president to release “wrongly jailed youths”.