Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, says that the United States and British governments suppressed information about the extent of the Holocaust, the JTA reports.
The newspaper also slammed Allied governments in World War II for deliberately failing to act to stop the systematic killing of Europe’s Jews despite having detailed information about the Nazi plans to exterminate European Jewry.
The newspaper quoted a 1948 essay published in the Italian Jewish journal Rassegna Mensile d’Israel that was based on …

A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there, the Daily Mail reports.
Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child. But the 27-year-old said she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city’s nearby Royal Infirmary.
Her daughter Mariah was delivered on …

People in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in May’s Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the authorities, the BBC reports.
One man told the BBC he was accused of being unpatriotic and a potential security threat, after he sent a text backing Armenia’s song, Jan Jan.
The Azerbaijani authorities said people had merely been invited to explain why they voted for Armenia.
The two states fought over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the …

A Tunisian woman is soon to deliver a record-breaking 12 babies – six boys and six girls, The Sun reports.
She conceived the tots following fertility treatment, after suffering a number of miscarriages.
The mum told doctors she was “feeling fine and looking forward to hugging her six boys and six girls”.
She is said to be in good health but subject to constant medical monitoring.
The father, named only as Marwan, said: “In the beginning, we thought that …

German authorities say their analysis of dirt found in a suitcase belonging to Nazi fugitive and concentration camp doctor Aribert Ferdinand Heim, confirms the man known as “Doctor Death” spent “considerable time” hiding in North Africa, and probably in Cairo, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Heim is accused of killing and torturing inmates of concentration camps – including Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen. He conducted medical experiments on prisoners, tested the efficacy of various lethal injections to the …

China’s giant pandas could be extinct in two to three generations as the country’s headlong rush for economic development destroys the animals’ habitat, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The threat to the country’s signature animal is caused by the increasing fragmentation of its living areas. This is making it difficult for different panda populations to inter-breed, said Fan Zhiyong, a leading conservationist and the species programme director for the World Wide Fund for Nature in China.
“If the …

Former Arkansas Governor, Republican and last year’s presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said today that the United States should not be telling Jewish people where they can and cannot live in Jerusalem, Arutz 7 reports.
“My question is, how would the government of the United States feel if Prime Minister Netanyahu began to dictate which people could live in the Bronx, which ones could live in Manhattan, and which could live in Queens,’” he said.
“The position that …

Russia says it has found a missing cargo vessel near the Cape Verde islands and retrieved its Russian crew, the BBC reports.
Russia’s Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that the 15-strong crew had been taken on board a Russian vessel. They were in good condition, he said.
The last previous sighting of the Finnish-owned Arctic Sea was in the Bay of Biscay on 30th July. On Saturday police in Finland said a ransom demand – which had not …

The English version of Wikipedia has received its three millionth article about Beate Marie Eriksen, a Norwegian soap star, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The article was posted today at 4.04am and marks an impressive milestone for the online encyclopedia, which is now the largest of its kind online.
The milestone was announced on the encyclopedia’s home page and has already risen to 3,000,482 since this morning.

The United States are refusing to pay more than £3 million in congestion charge fines, The Times reports.
The State Department have announced that President Barack Obama’s new representative in London will not change the policy, meaning that the Embassy’s penalties will continue to be ignored.
The disclosure will intensify the battle between Transport for London and foreign embassies over the £8 daily charge.
The US and other embassies claim that because the charge is a tax, diplomatic …

As always, we started to drive towards Scotland at 6AM on Saturday morning, as that early London is still relatively empty and it’s much easier to drive out of the city. We decided to head towards Lake District first, as we hadn’t been there before and it was right on the way.
I knew upfront that Prime Minister Gordon Brown would be in Lake District on his holiday, but unfortunately – or fortunately – we didn’t …

Oxford’s airport has been rebranded as “London Oxford Airport”, the ninth to use the capital’s name, despite it being nearly 60 miles from the city centre, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The airport serves business customers, private plane owners and a flying school and operators hope the change will bring in more business.
London Stansted Airport, in Essex, is just over 40 miles from the capital, while London Luton Airport, in Bedfordshire, is 35 miles away.

According to the AP, US President Barack Obama is willing to embrace insurance cooperatives over a government-run plan as the White House faces mounting opposition to its broad overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
Bowing to Republican pressure and offering political cover to fiscally conservative Democrats, Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday that it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance, the agency says. The shift leaves open a …

Sky-high petrol prices are set to hit £1.20 a litre by the end of the year, the Daily Mail reports.
Pump prices on forecourts across the country have increased by around 20p a litre since the start of 2009, adding £11 to the cost of filling up an average tank.
But if prices continue to rise at their present rate then the average cost is likely to be around 105.5p by the end of August with another …

The Ministry of Defence today released previously classified documents listing hundreds of UFO reports from across the UK between 1981 and 1996; for example, et 1996, 609 UFO sightings were reported.
The sightings – from observers including police officers, fighter pilots and school children – range from lights in the sky to close encounters with aliens with “lemon-shaped heads”, and include detailed analysis on some of the UK’s most well-known cases, the Daily Mail reports.
“We want …

Three Conservative Shadow Cabinet members attacked the NHS yesterday and called for it to be dismantled, the Mirror reports.
Michael Gove, Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt said the NHS was “no longer relevant” in a book, Direct Democracy, co-authored with Tory MEP Daniel Hannan. Hannan sparked outrage last week by calling the NHS a “60-year-old mistake” on US TV.
Tory MP Douglas Carswell, co-author of another book with Hannan called The Plan, said he stood by his …