Germany insists it was responsible for the Holocaust after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.

A leading expert tells the BBC that rapid rates of warming will see permafrost in parts of Alaska start to thaw by 2070.

France announces new heated tents for women and child migrants in the port city of Calais, as hundreds more police are to be deployed.

Swedish police shoot a masked man who killed one person and injured four with a sword in the western town of Trollhattan.

The first of rare reunions between South and North Korean family members, seeing each other after decades, comes to an end in the North.

A new law comes into force in Chile granting unmarried heterosexual and same-sex couples many of the rights enjoyed by married couples.

The UN's human rights chief accuses Czech authorities of "systematic" rights violations in their treatment of refugees and migrants.

Bastian Schweinsteiger is considering legal action against a company making Nazi dolls that bear a striking resemblance to him.