HUNGARIAN president Laszlo Solyom yesterday signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years’ jail.

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David Robertson Ross, a passionately patriotic Scot, specialised as a writer and historian in the story of the great Scottish hero, Sir William Wallace. In 2005, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Wallace’s execution, he trekked the 450 miles from Robroyston in Glasgow to London, retracing the route his hero followed to his grisly execution in 1305.

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The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia’s dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot.

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A County Durham village with a population of 63 is given Conservation Area status.

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GORDON Brown last night paid tribute to the “selfless humanity” of Britons who helped save Jews and other persecuted groups during the Second World War as they were ho

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Arnold Beichman, 96, an author, scholar and influential polemicist best remembered for his sharply anti-communist writings, died Feb. 17 in Pasadena, Calif. He had congestive heart failure.

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A statue of Queen Victoria was daubed in graffiti in Port Elizabeth a day after president Jacob Zuma hit out at the UK media claiming the British viewed Africans as “barbaric”.

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Invention made in ‘exploding turnip’ town. Coincidence’ Intriguing and/or terrifying news from the world of paintballing today, as it has emerged that an inventor in America has been granted a patent on a fearsomely powerful new paintball gun, powered by the same “bunker buster” principle as secret World War II Nazi superweapons.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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A French resistance heroine who saved over 100 lives and survived a Nazi firing squad has died at her English care home aged 105.

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Click here to see the Free Press story of the “Hitler Youth” visit – which has hit the national headlines today.

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Officials at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial say most of its 2,711 concrete slabs are suffering from cracks only five years after it opened. The memorial’s foundation director, Uwe Neumärker, said no remedy had yet been found for the damage in at least two-thirds of the slabs. He said there was no danger to visitors and he did not believe the damage was beyond repair. Bild newspaper reported that …

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Before the rumbling of tanks and wailing of dive-bombers, another noise represented the Nazi war machine: the tinkling of bicycle bells.

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Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, responded enthusiastically to a Nazi charm offensive aimed at aligning his movement with the Hitler Youth in the run-up to the Second World War, according to secret MI5 documents.

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The television baron responsible for creating Granada TV was a Soviet informer, say newly declassified files.

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In 1944 a washed-up, boozy Australian actor named Meyrick Clifton James experienced one of the oddest career revivals in history. James was not a great actor. He could neither sing nor dance, and he had lost a finger in the trenches.

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France likes to point the cinema camera on its own past, good and bad, but one of the darkest events in modern French history has been almost banished from the screen, until now. The movie Le Rafle, which opens in France on Wednesday, is the first to address head-on the most notorious episode in the persecution of French Jews during the Second World War.

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In the War Office there were a lot of old fossils. But the one who was the real fossil was Claud William Wright. He was not only a senior administrative civil servant, and when transferred to the Ministry of Education the first Permanent Secretary, in effect, to Lord Eccles’ Ministry of the Arts under Margaret Thatcher, but also from an early age, a leading geologist, palaeontologist and …

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Those who would cavalierly deny the Jewish people their history and religious sensitivities, whether in Jerusalem, Hebron, or Tripoli, while demanding full recognition of all their own claims, are doing the cause of peace no service.

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Tim Burton is about to tap into the recent vogue for period-horror mashups – though he probably won’t direct Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford are already planning rival biopics of assassinated US president Abraham Lincoln. Now Tim Burton is set to step into the fray – though his particular take looks a little leftfield to trouble either of the above. The Alice in Wonderland director is to …

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A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair has apparantly been found in a vault in Sydney, Australia, according to the AFP.

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PROSECUTORS are seeking prison terms of up to two-and-a-half years for three Poles who confessed to stealing the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the former Au

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On Wednesday the JACK Quartet, in dark suits and ties, played at Merkin Concert Hall in a program sponsored by the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society.

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An exhibition to remember holocaust victim Anne Frank opens on the Isle of Man.

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Image of a coiled snake appears in 16th century painting of Elizabeth I.

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The Ministry of Food exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London marks the 70th anniversary of the introduction of rationing and examines how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages.

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The dying days of the British Empire in India and other parts of south Asia were captured in a collection of films which will be released today.

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After seasons of bronze, green and purple peepers, many makeup artists are exploring a decidedly vibrant and vivacious blue period. Here are some guidelines on wearing blue, from subtle to out-there.

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A WOMAN who has criticised anti-Nazi laws and is married to an extreme right-winger is running for president in Austria.

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What’s Your Reaction’ SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) — O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul: They aren’t considered role models by most African Americans, but they were celebrated by students at a South L.A. elementary school for Black History Month.

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What’s Your Reaction’ LOS ANGELES — The widow of a notorious Israeli thief has been convicted of receiving stolen property from a 27-year-old heist that included more than 100 expensive timepieces and museum artifacts, including what’s been called “the Mona Lisa of the clock world.”

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A war veteran who thought he had arthritis has been told that his discomfort was caused by a German bullet lodged in his hip for the last 66 years.

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Winston Churchill, the former Conservative MP and grandson of the Second World War Prime Minister, who died yesterday after a two-year battle against cancer, was the Conservative MP for Stretford and then Davyhulme in Greater Manchester for 27 years.

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HALF A century after his death at the hands of the KGB, Stepan Bandera, a Second World War partisan, has not lost his ability to rally Ukrainians against Russia – and agains

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A Polish anti-abortion group has sparked controversy by using pictures of Hitler and a bloody and torn foetus in a billboard campaign designed to ensure Poles adhere to the country’s strict abortion laws.

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A group of 12 World War II Marines ranging in age from 85 to 97 is stuck on the island of Okinawa, waging what could be their final fight to return to Iwo Jima to commemorate the 65th anniversary of their greatest victory.

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After working as a foreign correspondent in the 1960s, Mr Churchill served as a Manchester MP between 1970 and 1997. He was also the founding president of the UK National Defence Association, which has since 2007 campaigned for more resources for the armed forces.

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What’s Your Reaction’ The monster-filled spin-offs on classic literature spawned by 2009’s “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” have consistently mastered the art of the book trailer. The latest in irreverent mash-ups is no exception.

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Proposals for a new international tax on bank transactions have been given a major boost after one of Japan’s most senior ministers came out in favour of the radical plans.

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A documentary looks at the legacy of the 1940 German film “Jew Süss,” perhaps the most notoriously anti-Semitic movie ever made.

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Half a century after his death at the hands of the K.G.B., Stepan Bandera, a World War II partisan, has not lost his ability to rally Ukrainians against Russia — and against each other.

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Decaying sea walls going back to the time of Napoleon were being blamed for the deaths of at least 50 deaths in violent storms which ravaged France.

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A solicitor has been accused along with four other men of threatening to destroy a stolen Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece unless they were paid £4.25m, in a conspiracy allegedly hatched in the offices of one of Glasgow’s leading law firms.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Media executives have a love/hate relationship with Apple. They admire the elegant design and usability of its products but decry the…

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EDINBURGH West Liberal Democrat MP John Barrett has backed a campaign for a Robin Hood tax on bank transactions to raise billions of pounds to tackle poverty and climate chang

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Historians trace relatives of WWI tunneller

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Joseph Stalin became the most important figure in the political direction of one-third of the people of the world.

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GRUMPY Gordon Brown has been branded the Prime Mentalist by his Downing Street entourage fed up with his tantrums, we can reveal.

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What’s Your Reaction’ There are various events on campus going on for Black History Month, but the University [of Pennsylvania] does not officially recognize the celebration — a fact that didn’t sit well with School of Social Policy and Practice student Matt Graber.

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In enshrining the Church’s divided World War II loyalties by canonizing the ambivalent pope at the time, the Church would be announcing to the world what it’s made of. Pius should be neither demonized nor sanctified.

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Adolf Hitler nude sketch, drawn before his WW1 experience, for sale.

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