A trial has begun in Aachen, Germany of a former member of Hitler's Waffen-SS who is accused of murdering three Dutch civilians during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Radovan Karadzic has many faces. He was a doctor, a psychiatrist, a poet, and a writer of kids books. He also was the man who in the 1990s drenched Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia in blood and hatred - events for which he now stands trial in The Hague.

Animal activists struck at least four different fur farms in Spain and France earlier in October, releasing approximately 20,000 of the animals. Some mink were recaptured.

The singer Morrissey has been dramatically rushed to hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in Swindon in the UK.

After the collapse of the Iceland economy, the Icelandic government has reached a comprehensive deal that would reimburse Great Britain and Netherlands more than $5 billion.

India, home to over one third of the world's hungry, has been criticized in a report by an international anti-poverty agency over its efforts to tackle the problem of hunger within its population.

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has won his appeal against a ban on him entering the U.K., imposed due to his outspoken views on Islam. Wilders wrote the film Fitna, which says the Koran advocated extreme violence.

According to the United Nations human development index, Norway takes the number one spot. The UN human development index makes judgments based on the country's life expectancy, literacy, school enrollment and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.

The European Union has written to American Airlines, British Airways (BA) and the Spanish carrier Iberia to express concern that the three airlines' plan for a partnership on transatlantic flights would be in breach of antitrust regulations.

Almost 60 years after Anne Frank died of typhoid in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, video footage - probably the only moving images of the famous diarist - has been released for the first time.