glamorised by hit TV shows such as The X-Files and Without a Trace, and the Oscar-winning film Silence of the Lambs. There are a further 2,100 "professional staff positions" available behind the scenes: jobs include intelligence analysts, fingerprint ...

8 Jan 2009

The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Historian Saul Friedländer argues that attempts to draw a line under the Holocaust in Germany are bound to fail. SPIEGEL: Professor Friedländer, in contrast to other accounts of the history of the ...

8 Jan 2009

A distraught farmer and his wife have told of their disgust after a frenzied animal attack left five of their pregnant sheep dead or with injuries so severe that they had to be put down. Last night Nigel and Yvonne Webster, from Scoulton, near Watton ...

8 Jan 2009

ON TUESDAY at their weekly sale Hexham and Northern Marts had forward 96 cattle, which included 52 over thirty month animals. All classes of prime cattle considerably dearer, prime cattle averaged 164.2p/kilo with more buyers present. Heifers per ...

8 Jan 2009

The government has issued advice calling on pregnant women to avoid close contact with sheep. The strange warning comes as government sources worry about an infection in some ewes during lambing season. A joint alert from the Department of Health ...

8 Jan 2009

IT'S the feeling that returns when eating out in Sydney. The longing, the indignity, the stomach rumbling from looking too long at diners - crumbs tumbling from their lips, the curve of their arm as it stretches to the bread basket. The gnawing ...

7 Jan 2009