Adolf Hitler looked composed. Even I, who'd known him for 13 years, could not tell that he'd already decided to end his life.

Dressed in his usual field-gray tunic with black trousers, he held a map of Berlin in his right hand. His left trembled. It was April 29, 1945 and Soviet troops were closing in on the city center and the Fuhrer-bunker.
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THE suspected Jordanian double agent who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan wanted to die in a holy war and wrote fiery internet articles calling for jihad against the United States and Israel, his family and friends said yesterday.

A counter-terrorism official said Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi turned against his Jordanian intelligence recruiters, who offered him to their CIA allies as someone who would help them track down al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri.
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The moment is fast approaching when Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, may have to make the most difficult decision of his career — whether to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities and risk triggering a conflagration that could spread across the Middle East. Israeli experts believe the point of no return may be only six months away when Iran’s nuclear programme will have — if it has not already — metastasised into a multitude of smaller, difficult-to-trace facilities in deserts and mountains, while ...

Entire regime is the target
Opposition in Iran is no longer directed at supporting one section of the theocracy against the other. The days of the regime are numbered, say Yassamine Mather and Chris Strafford The 56th anniversary of the murder of three students by the shah’s security forces during vice president Richard Nixon’s visit to Tehran in 1953 may prove to be the last Students Day commemor ...

Russia's new submarine-based missile has suffered the latest in a series of test failures, as amateur footage was broadcast of unusual spiral lights spotted in Norway across the border from the launch site. The Bulava intercontinental missile has been billed as Russia's newest technological breakthrough to support its nuclear deterrent, but the repeated test failures are an embarrassment for the Kremlin. ...