The publication was announced in Berlin on Tuesday by Professor Andreas Wirsching and Dr Christian Hartmann of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. Mein Kampf is already widely available around the world but not in the country where Hitler wrote it in the1920's and which made him rich. Filled with anti-Jewish, anti-Slavic slurs, it was the blueprint for his later wars of conquest across Europe and the Holocaust.

The copyright passed to the state of Bavaria following his suicide in the Berlin bunker in April 1945, along with all his possessions. The new version of his autobiography and political viewpoint will be an annotated edition of the book which, during the 12 years the Nazis ruled Germany, was more popular than the Bible.

Even though the researchers had no plans to produce a live baby, their work once again raised the issue of how soon science will be able to engineer designer babies and, just as importantly, whether doing so is ethical. “Science is moving at such a rapid pace that society can’t put off much longer deciding what it thinks about the concept,” says Peter Schattner, a scientist and author of “Sex, Love and DNA: What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human.”

“Abortion has long been a challenging and controversial issue, but with our increased ability to use fetal DNA to glimpse into the potential child’s future, the moral issues have multiplied.” As science progresses, parents may be able to choose a child based not just on the sex but on such criteria as a child’s likelihood of excelling in sports or mathematics.

A technological innovation that can strategically edit out specific stretches of DNA could ultimately lead to the genetic modification of children, and should be halted before it starts being used, they argued. "Like so many powerful new technologies, gene editing holds potential for both great benefit and great harm," an open letter published by the groups said.

"The implementation of heritable human genetic modification — often referred to as the creation of 'genetically modified humans' or 'designer babies' — could irrevocably alter the nature of the human species and society.

The freewheeling conversations have become a trademark of his papacy and the few times he takes direct questions from journalists. Francis, who visited Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, also said the continent was "a martyr of exploitation" by wealthy countries who lust after its natural resources and try to impose Western values instead of concentrating on development.

The pope was asked if the UN climate summit in Paris would mark a turnaround in the fight against global warming. "I am not sure, but I can say to you 'now or never'," he said. "Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide."

He spoke of retreating glaciers in Greenland and low-lying countries at risk from rising sea levels. "I am sure that the (Paris delegates) have goodwill to do something. I hope it turns out this way and I am praying that it will," he said.

World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth's rising temperatures, with the United States and China - the world's biggest carbon emitters - urging the UN climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming.

Our junior doctors are about to walk out on strike because they don't want their overtime pay cut back. The jungle camp at Calais feels ready to explode into violence, with a 'nouvelle jungle' planned for a quiet village in Kent. And a vote on military intervention in Syria looks likely to split the Labour Party and fail in the Commons, calling into question our role in the world.

The Americans and Canadians have been perfectly clear. This Treaty on Climate Change Emissions is not going to be legally binding. And, in fact, it is not going to be a treaty at all. It is just hot air and paperwork. You'd think hot air is the last thing the climate needs. With America and Canada already greasing themselves to slide out of any deal, India and China are oiling themselves up to do the same.

China still builds at least one coal-fired power station a week and accounts for a third of all global emissions. It is the world's largest emitter of carbon, a position proudly held since 2007. They make big promises. But their population lives blinded by smog. India has been clear it will spend two decades increasing the burning of fossil fuels, boosting emissions to full capacity, in order to drag 300 million people above the poverty line.

As African nations follow on the coat-tails of India, trying to drag themselves out of abject poverty and feed the millions with nothing to eat, are we seriously asking them to care about emissions? My personal view is there are some inconvenient climate truths we don't get to hear much about, thanks to liberal lefties… Of the world's best 50 models on climate change, 95 per cent predicted that Antarctic Sea ice would decrease over the past 30 years. It increased.

Global-warming alarmists even went on a jolly expedition to prove their point in the Antarctic and ended up trapped in ice they’d said wasn't there. Climate-change scientists have been shivering in their short-sleeved shirts to find excuses for why the earth hasn't warmed as predicted. Scientists are floundering. Having worked at the Met Office, I can tell you their salaries depend on climate change being real.

But right now, with terror on our doorstep and ISIS in our midst, should world leaders be chatting about climate change as a top priority?

Up to six Tornado jets will provide aerial refuelling and satellite images rather than carrying out direct bombing missions. Army chief of staff General Volker Wieker said on Sunday the military force would be mobilised “very quickly” once Germany MPs had given it the go-ahead. But German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the 1,200 soldiers as "an upper limit, with a buffer zone".

He continued: “I do not think that we will have that many soldiers deployed abroad at the same time." Germany has seen a rise in extremist Islamists based in the country, with some estimates putting the number of ISIS sympathisers based there at 7,900, and fears have been heightened about the threat from jihadists since the shootings and bombings in France.

Since the Second World War, Germans have been reluctant to join military missions overseas and had previously resisted a direct involvement in Syria.

Forty-four per cent were in favour of Mrs Merkel remaining in power. The findings are an indication of how dramatically Mrs Merkel’s public support has fallen in recent weeks following opposition to her “open-door” refugee policy. Just a few months ago she seemed unassailable as Germany’s leader, and her Christian Democrat party was even daring to contemplate the possibility of an overall majority in the 2017 election.

Last weekend saw renewed violence in refugee shelters around the country. Police had to be called to separate hundreds of asylum-seekers after a brawl broke out in a shelter at Berlin’s Nazi-era Tempelhof airport. Some 14 asylum-seekers were arrested and two security guards were injured. It is believed the brawl started because asylum-seekers were unhappy with the food.

Some 500 people fled from another shelter in the Berlin suburb of Spandau after asylum-seekers began fighting each other with fire extinguishers. In a third incident, nine asylum-seekers were arrested and five people were injured at a shelter in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, where asylum-seekers from Syria and Afghanistan began fighting.

It comes after lengthy efforts by Chinese officials to legitimise the yuan, which critics say has been kept artificially cheap to artificially boost exports in the world’s second-largest economy. China has lobbied hard for the currency to be included in the list, which at present is made up of just the dollar, the euro, the pound and the Japanese yen. The list has not been altered since 2000, when the euro replace the franc and deutschmark.

While being a part of the club carries no particular conditions, and is largely symbolic, the yuan will contribute to the value of the special drawing right – a weighted average of the currencies – which the IMF uses to price its emergency loans.

More significant is the diplomatic legitimacy that inclusion grants the yuan, whose value is carefully managed by Chinese authorities. Officials devalued it over the summer in a shock move to respond to slowing growth, but it is still seen as tightly controlled with the country’s central bank lacking transparency.

Nevertheless, the downing of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 by Turkish jets marked the first attack on a Russian fighter aircraft by a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member state since 1953. Although this incident is not by itself sufficient to provoke an armed conflict between Turkey and Russia, it illustrates the main danger confronting the world in Syria: namely a conflagration between regional powers, many of which are armed with nuclear weapons.

The possibility of a serious conflagration between heavily armed regional actors will be removed only if and when the Syrian Civil War ends, even if that results in the loss of land to the so-called Islamic State. That must be the immediate goal of the Combined Joint Task Force and every other regional actor that wishes to see the end of ISIS. It is only after peace has been achieved in Syria that ISIS can be dealt with effectively.

In a statement released on Monday, prosecutors said the activities of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation were a threat to the foundations of Russia’s Constitutional order and national security. They added that the Justice Ministry would be duly informed about these conclusions and would add the two groups to Russia’s list of undesirable foreign organizations. Are the "globalization gloves" finally coming off?

Will the US retaliate in kind and expand its year-long sanctions against Russia as a result as the world continues to careen into fragmented, multi-polar chaos? Or will there be another provocation between NATO-member Turkey and Russia as a result, perhaps one involving Russian ship transit through the Boshporus? With events now moving fast, we should have an answer in the very near future.

According to Amnesty International, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war Saudi Arabia has not accepted a single Syrian refugee. Neither has Kuwait. Neither has Qatar. Neither has the United Arab Emirates. These nations are absolutely swimming in money, and yet they have slammed the door on these desperately needy Islamic refugees. So what precisely does that tell us?

When I first learned about this, I was quite upset. So much pressure is being put on the US, Europe and other wealthy nations to take in vast numbers of Syrian refugees, and yet the wealthiest Islamic nations in the Middle East are completely shunning them.

To be honest, if people are leaving Syria because they want to get away from ISIS, then they probably wouldn’t want to go to Saudi Arabia. Yes, things are certainly more peaceful in Saudi Arabia than in Syria at the moment, but the truth is that the Saudis and ISIS have much in common. Both embrace a radical version of Sunni Islam that is more than a little bit frightening, and both are run by religious fanatics that are absolutely ruthless.

The French government spent money like drunken sailors; they had substantial welfare programs, free hospitals, and grand monuments. They held vast territories overseas, engaged in constant warfare, and even had their own intrusive intelligence service that spied on King and subject alike. Of course, they couldn’t pay for any of this.

French budget deficits were out of control, and they resorted to going heavily into debt and rapidly debasing their currency. Stop me when this sounds familiar. The French economy ultimately failed, bringing with it a 26-year period of hyperinflation, civil war, military conquest, and genocide.

History is full of examples, from ancient Mesopotamia to the Soviet Union, which show that whenever societies reach unsustainable levels of resource consumption and allocation, they collapse. Today’s system is just a 19th century model applied to a 21st century society. I mean – a room full of men making decisions about how much money to print? It’s so antiquated it’s almost comical.

But given that the majority of Western governments borrow money just to pay interest on money they’ve already borrowed, it’s obvious the current game is almost finished.

Although it might seem like science fiction, researchers have already proven that the diabetes drug metformin extends the life of animals, and the Food and Drug Administration in the US has now given the go-ahead for a trial to see if the same effects can be replicated in humans. If successful it will mean that a person in their 70s would be as biologically healthy as a 50-year-old.

Ageing expert Professor Gordon Lithgow, of the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing in California, is one of the study advisers. He said: "If you target an ageing process and you slow down ageing then you slow down all the diseases and pathology of ageing as well."

"That's revolutionary. That's never happened before. I have been doing research into ageing for 25 years and the idea that we would be talking about a clinical trial in humans for an anti-ageing drug would have been thought inconceivable. But there is every reason to believe it's possible."

Now news of the 'miracle' has reached the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City which is investigating the incident. Catholics believe the wafer, also referred to as the host or sacramental bread becomes the body of Jesus Christ in the Catholic communion ceremony. It is consumed with wine which is transformed into his blood.

The so-called miracle began after a young parishioner returned his host to the priest at St Francis Xavier Church during communion, who then placed it in a glass of water, Fox 13 reported. Once consecrated a host is sacred and therefore Catholics believe a leftover or unwanted wafer must not be simply thrown away but should be dissolved in water until it no longer has the appearance of bread. It can then be poured down a special sink which drains onto the ground rather than a sewer.

However, on this occasion, the priest claims that not only did the thin wafer stay intact, it began to turn blood red. News quickly spread and believers from across the community began flocking to the church to see the 'miracle' on display. The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City has now seized the host and is investigating the incident. There are no current plans to return the wafer to public display.