Heirs win ruling on Berlin site
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BERLIN -- Heirs of a Jewish family that lost its German department store fortune under the Nazis have won a court verdict that advances their $193 million claim to property on a famous Berlin square, a lawyer said yesterday.
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An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.
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Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl has become the first winner of a prize for the building of Europe, named after an Italian statesman who died 50 years ago.
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Ruins from a huge vacation resort complex built by the Nazis on the Baltic island of Ruegen were bought by an anonymous bidder at auction, but historical protection laws may prevent it ever being used.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.
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Â· Bereaved mothers win right to have appeal heard Â· Petition drafted by two leading human rights QCs
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Details about how the Pritzker family, the heirs to the Hyatt hotel chain, divided up the family fortune among feuding members were closer to being revealed after a court ruling yesterday.
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An exhibition of contemporary art owned by the billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier opened to the public Wednesday with none of the controversy that accompanied the decision to show the collection in Berlin.
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A show of modern art belonging to the millionaire grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist opened in Berlin on Tuesday, and stoked a row over whether the owner had done enough to atone for his family history.
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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A German judge is to rule whether two men suspected of planning an al-Qaeda suicide attack can be held.
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Berlin won the right to host the 2009  world athletics championships on Saturday.
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PRAGUE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Roma rights groups have hailed a ruling by British  law lords that British immigration  controls at Prague airport  breached international laws against racial discrimination.
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Germany has accepted a European court decision that Monaco's Princess Caroline can stop the publication of photos of her and her family, despite complaints by news organizations.
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement involving Holocaust victims, their relatives and an Italian insurance company that ends a lawsuit brought a decade ago.
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American heirs to a property empire   confiscated by the Nazis said they would fight for restitution   from KarstadtQuelle after the German retailer contested a court   order to compensate them.
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MIAMI There&#39;s word of a tentative settlement in a case brought by Holocaust survivors against the US government for the plundering of a Nazi gold train in World War Two.