Gen. Frank Kitson, an expert on counterinsurgency, played a key role in the British response to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Security screeners during a strike at an airport in Frankfurt on Thursday.
A Lufthansa aircraft is de-iced at Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday. Heavy snowfall and freezing rain across Germany led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and trains.
Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who became one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust, pictured in 1941. She died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp toward the end of World War II.
An award ceremony honoring the Palestinian author Adania Shibli was canceled at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of several events touching on Palestinian culture and society called off since the war.