German man faces trial over Nazi mass murder at Auschwitz

A 95-year-old former SS member will go on trial in north-east Germany next month accused of assisting in the mass murder of Auschwitz death camp inmates.

The indictment says Hubert Zafke was an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people during one month in 1944. It says he was an SS medical orderly.

Donald Trump debate: Ban risks making tycoon a 'martyr'

Paul Flynn said Mr Trump's call to ban Muslims from the US was "extremely dangerous" but barring him from the UK risked being seen as anti-American.

The "Ban Trump" petition states that the UK "has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech" and argues that the rules must be "fairly applied to the rich as well as poor".

Big banks brace for oil loans to implode

Firms on Wall Street helped bankroll America's energy boom, financing very expensive drilling projects that ended up flooding the world with oil.

Now that the oil glut has caused prices to crash below $30 a barrel, turmoil is rippling through the energy industry and souring many of those loans. Dozens of oil companies have gone bankrupt and the ones that haven't are feeling enough financial stress to slash spending and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

The week that changed U.S.-Iran relations, explained

President Barack Obama was still being accused by Republicans of apologizing to Iran after two small U.S. boats drifted into the country's waters, leading to 10 sailors being held

The United States and Iran concluded months of secret negotiations and struck a massive prisoner-swap deal. Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former Marine Amir Hekmati, Pastor Saeed Abedini and Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari were released from Iranian custody in exchange for seven Iranians who were not convicted of violent crimes but of violating the sanctions ban against Iran.

Ted Cruz: Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan

Ted Cruz swatted away the idea that Donald Trump's conversion to Republicanism was genuine, saying that Trump's late-life change to conservatism was in no way similar to that of another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan.

Cruz, who has shed all caution about attacking Trump after months of playing nice, also continued to assail Trump's giving history to Democrats

Donald Trump debate: Could UK really ban him?

Donald Trump was in the spotlight

Monday in Britain's Parliament, where lawmakers debated whether the Republican presidential front-runner should be barred from entering the country. T

I do not embrace Ted Cruz politically, but I do embrace his right to run for president, and so should you

: Who decides whether Cruz is eligible? My answer: At first, you do. We, the people, do.

Similarly, for presidential elections the Constitution's structure makes Congress the judge of any birth certificate dispute or any other issue of presidential eligibility.

Ted Cruz failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans from the nation's largest banks when he ran for the Senate in 2012, a potential violation of federal election rules.

The senator did eventually list the loans on personal financial disclosures

"These loans have been disclosed over and over and over again,"