Albert Einstein’s complete archives – from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundbreaking research – are going online for the first

The Toulouse shooting suspect, Mohamed Merah, has died after police stormed his flat, ending a 32-hour siege.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed this week that capital punishment was on the table under the US military code for the rogue sniper who last week killed 16 Afghanis.

The international criminal court has delivered the first verdict in its ten-year history, finding a Congolese warlord guilty of recruiting child soldiers.

The Russian presidential election last Sunday was “clearly skewed” in favour of Vladimir Putin.

Syria has again refused to allow aid into the destroyed suburb of Homs amid mounting evidence of human rights abuses.

China’s single child policy was once a source of pride to government planners.

Six specialised teams will crisscross the Netherlands to carry out euthanasia at the homes of patients whose own doctors refuse to do so.

Thousands of people have gathered in Christchurch’s Hagley Park to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city exactly a year ago last Wednesday.

At least 55 people have been killed across Iraq in attacks mostly aimed at security forces.