“I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.”
“Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.”
“If I’d made more money… I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I’d just…”
“There will be generations because of what you did.”
“I didn’t do enough!”

Ceremonies are being held in Bombay to mark the first anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by terrorists.
Police have paraded in the city and later a memorial will be inaugurated and a candle-lit prayer service held, the BBC reports.
The attacks, which began on 26th November 2008 and lasted nearly three days, left 174 people dead, including nine terrorists. The only surviving attacker, Pakistani Mohammad Ajmal Qasab, is currently on trial …

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh led the nation in observing two minutes of silence today before a memorial service to mark the passing of the First World War generation, The Times reports.
A year ago, the last three Great War veterans living in the UK each laid wreaths at the Cenotaph as Britain marked the 90th anniversary of the moment when the guns fell silent on the Western Front.
William Stone died in January aged 108, …

Israel today remembers the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated, according to the Hebrew calendar, today 14 years ago.
Rabin was murdered in the evening 4th November, 1995, or on 12th Cheshvan, 5756 (as Jewish day begins on sunset, and the assassination took place after the sun had set). According to the Hebrew calendar, today is 11th Cheshvan, 5770, and 12th Cheshvan starts at sunset.
According to Ha’aretz, the annual state memorial service commemorating both …

Bagpipes and drums sounded across Ground Zero in New York today as the city commemorated the eighth anniversary of the 11th September attacks on the World Trade Center, AFP reports.
The melancholy music mingled with rain as the crowd of mourners, police, firefighters, servicemen and officials, including Vice President Joseph Biden, gathered for the annual ceremony.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the day should also be remembered for the many who volunteered to help in the …

The Jewish Community of Hebron marked the 80th anniversary of the 1929 pogrom, in which 67 Jews were slaughtered with axes and otherwise by their Arab neighbors, at a public ceremony in the City of the Patriarchs on Monday, Arutz 7 reports.
Survivors and descendants of victims of the carnage were present, as were Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin (whose mother’s cousins were among the victims) and Minister Yuli Edelstein.
The massacre not only destroyed the Hebron’s Jewish …

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) have finally equated stalinism and nazism, saying that the Soviet Union was as guilty of Second World War as nazi Germany, and that both stalinism and nazism brought about crimes against humanity and genocide.
The organisation based their conclusion on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 which they said was the precursor to the conflagration, the Daily Mail reports. The pact, named after the Soviet and Nazi foreign ministers …

On 10th of November, 1942, after the victory in El Alamein, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said his famous words: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
He had to wait for almost two years to see the beginning of the end – because that’s what the Normandy Landings were.
On 6th of June, 1944, the Normandy Landings commenced. The …