A spectacular find may prove what many have long suspected. E-mails and other files found on a FARC laptop in the jungles of Ecuador show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have close relations with the terror group.

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, the head of German state bank KfW, has resigned. She had been criticized for her handling of the financial problems besetting the state-owned bank IKB, of which KfW owns 45.5 percent.

The East German secret police may have disbanded long ago, but fear of former Stasi members lives on. A court is about to decide whether a former Stasi informant can be outed in public. The answer will say a lot

With the Olympic Games rapidly approaching, more attention than ever is being focused on China's handling of protests in Tibet and on the state of human rights in the Communist country. SPIEGEL spoke with human rights advocate Liu Xiaobo about

The International Auschwitz Committee has strongly criticized Germany's national rail operator over its refusal to allow a traveling Holocaust exhibition to be shown at Berlin's main train station. Organizers plan to protest the company's stance at a demonstration in central

HEROIN with an estimated street value of £2.2 million has been seized after it was smuggled into the Britain in a lorry from France, the UK Border Agency said yesterday.

TOWER Bridge in London is to receive a £4 million facelift over the next four years.

ANOTHER 450 British soldiers are set to be sent to Afghanistan from autumn for two years of intensive fighting.

BABIES and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to be overweight by the time they are three than children who sleep for longer, research showed yest

THE TV presenter Trisha Goddard is being treated for breast cancer, it was revealed yesterday.

ONE of the key strands of the conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths was that Diana and Dodi had been about to announce their engagement.

BRITISH Airways is hoping to operate all its flights at Heathrow's beleaguered fifth terminal today for the first time since it opened 12 days ago.

SHOPPERS have had their credit card limits cut by £3.1 billion as finance firms worry about consumers' ability to repay their debts, research has shown.

HERE are some unlikely facts observers have learned during the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales:

ONLY a few hours after the death of his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales, a grief-stricken Mohamed al-Fayed declared: "It is not an accident, it is an assassination.

PAUL Burrell, the former royal butler, could face a perjury investigation following the completion of the Diana inquest.

POLICE are expected to continue questioning the mother of Shannon Matthews today about the nine-year-old's disappearance.

THE Omagh bombing was described as "a massacre of the innocents" yesterday, as a civil action was launched against five men the victims' families believe to be re

YOU can already use them to take photographs, play music and surf the internet. Now, latest technology will transform the mobile phone into a debit card.