Three fishermen lost at sea for nine months relied on a fishing rod constructed out of broken engine parts and rain collected in a bucket to survive.
Sometimes going days without food, the group caught sharks — once with their bare hands — and trapped seagulls. The fishermen hid under blankets to protect themselves from the [...]

The child’s notebook, filled with poems, was crumbling with age by the time Eliezer Grynfeld found it in an attic corner reserved for family relics that survived the Holocaust.
The child did not. Abramek Koplowicz, a blond, blue-eyed boy, was killed in an Auschwitz gas chamber in 1943 at the age of 14.
Sixty-five years later, Mr. [...]

Miriam Schmetterling still remembers the day in 1944 when Mikolaj Tracz appeared at the top of the ladder to the attic where she had been hiding for 10 months with her husband, his parents and another Jewish family.
”You can come out now,” she remembers Tracz saying. ”The Germans are gone.”
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Fabio Prieto Llorente was arrested on March 2003 during an unprecedented crackdown launched by the Cuban government, and sentenced to 20 years in prison for “damaging the independence and territorial integrity of the Cuban state”.
He began working as a journalist in 1997 at the Havana Press news agency. In the last two years before his [...]

1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated
The Swedish prime minister has died after being shot in a street ambush in central Stockholm. His wife was wounded.
Olof and Lisbeth Palme were attacked as they were leaving a cinema at about 2330 local time. Mr Palme was shot twice in the stomach, his wife was shot in the back.
Police [...]