For decades a German city has been eager to shed all signs of its dark past, but this 76,000-tonne concrete behemoth was too tough to tear down. Now it has a new lease of life.
Surviving battering storms and challenges to Sealand's sovereignty in international waters since 1966, an intriguing legend tells of how one family repelled the clutches of a powerful neighbouring empire.
A priceless 16th-century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during World War II and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw said.
A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted for her role in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust, in what could be the final trial of its kind.
The actor's visit to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during WWII, was his first and came as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.
A precious set of World War II war medals have been returned to the relieved daughter of a veteran, five years after they were stolen from her Melbourne home.
Western officials believe Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine as soon as May 9, a symbolic day for Russia paving the way for him to step his campaign.
Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as "neo-Nazis", even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust.
American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan were unintentionally left behind by a scuba diving boat off the coast of North Queensland on January 25, 1998.