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British intelligence was unable to find any trace of Charlie Chaplin's birth when it investigated allegations of communist sympathies, newly-released files showed on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The real name and birthplace of legendary silent-film star Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain's domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into U.S. claims he was a communist sympathizer, documents released on Friday revealed.

LONDON (Reuters) - The real name and birthplace of legendary silent-film star Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain's domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into U.S. claims he was a communist sympathizer, documents released on Friday revealed.

Manolis Glezos once stole a Nazi flag floating over the Acropolis. Now, alongside Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, he is calling for resistance to austerity measures imposed on Greece by foreigners.

British-Australian actress Naomi Watts is to play Princess Diana in a movie about the late royal's final two years, filmmakers have announced.

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The commander of a group of U.S. Marines who were photographed in Afghanistan with what looks like a Nazi SS flag concluded they were acting out of ignorance rather than bigotry and decided not to punish them, a Marine Corps spokesman said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Actress Naomi Watts will play Britain's Princess Diana in a new feature film about the last two years of her glamorous life that ended in tragedy, Britain's Ecosse Films said on Thursday.

MADRID (Reuters) - Sitting at a wooden table before the judges of Spain's Supreme Court, Maria Martin Lopez recalls the day a lifetime ago when fascists loyal to General Francisco Franco shot her mother.

The world's oldest major film studio celebrates its 100th birthday this month with Hollywood stars and European players ready to toast the mythic Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin.

Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage stormed out of the European Parliament after its German chairman cut him off in mid-flight for comparing Berlin's ideas for Greece to Nazi control.

Outspoken British MEP Nigel Farage stormed out of the European Parliament on Wednesday after its German chair cut him off in mid-flight for comparing Berlin's ideas for Greece to Nazi control.

A 1913 painting by Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler sold for 32,000 euros ($42,300) in a Slovak internet auction on Sunday, the Darte auction house said.

Three letters by Albert Einstein to a American-German group which campaigned against the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s will go on the auction block in Los Angeles next week.

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany (Reuters) - Walter Brunner, a lively 82-year old whose blue baseball cap matches the color of his eyes, leans across a red leather booth at the American-style diner in this southern German town and tries to make light of the looming pullout of U.S. troops.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany marked the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Friday facing serious doubt about how well its institutions are dealing with right-wing extremism.

POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - Portraits of Frederick the Great line the streets, bookshops are bursting with new biographies, talk shows debate his legacy and toymaker Steiff has made a limited edition teddy bear of the Prussian ruler in his blue uniform coat and tricorn hat.

Whenever Misha Shawdagar appears on screen, things always turn nasty. Bangladesh's "baddest baddie" has acted in over 750 films -- and he is proud of being typecast as the nation's number-one villain.

Christopher Plante of NOM on Monday testified that he objects to a gay marriage bill because it would pollute the social environment. Christopher Plante of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Monday testified that he objects to a proposed gay marriage bill in Washington state because it would pollute the social environment for future generations, ThinkProgress.org reported. ?Today, you can go to the supermarket and buy seventh generation cleaning products because it is politically correct to be worried about the ecology we're leaving the seventh generation. What is the social environment we're going to leave the seventh generation,? Plante told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee reviewing the measure. (Related: NOM pledges to work against Washington state Republicans who support gay marriage.) Senator Mary Margaret Haugen announced she would vote in favor of the bill before the panel began its public hearing, giving supporters sufficient support to make Washington t

Polish authorities said Monday they plan to boost tourism at Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Wolfsschanze" (Wolf's Lair), which ended up on their territory after post-war border changes.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is looking for an investor to turn the "Wolf's Lair" of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a tourist attraction.