THE SLEEPY-EYED character in the well-tailored London suit casually smoked a Gauloise in the sinister shadow of the wall. He cast a cursory glance through his heavy-framed glasses at the ...

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A funeral has been held for thousands of human bone fragments found during excavations at Berlin's Freie Universitaet, thought to have been part of "scientific" collections held by the Nazis. The site ...

Archaeologists unearthed some 4,000 ancient skeletons from the heart of the city. After years of study, they were reinterred in a rare and solemn tribute. By Sarah Maslin Nir Reporting from Berlin ...