updated 5/16/2011 4:07:03 PM ET

By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing Chinese officials have denied the Beijing palace that was once home to China’s emperors is being used as a club for the rich.

Fuhrer’s bodyguard gives last interview Rochus Misch is the last living witness of Hitler’s suicide Sunday May 15,2011 By Stefan Schnoor and Boris Klinge   FORMER SS officer Rochus Misch, the last surviving member of Hitler’s inner circle is terminally ill. Misch, the Fuhrer’s bodyguard gives his final interview… IN A Berlin suburb, just a few miles from Hitler’s Führer bunker is a small, white detached house with  a grey metal gate and crumbling plaster. It has, for many decades, been the home of Rochus Misch, the man who worked as Hitler’s bodyguard between 1940 and 1945. He is the last living witness of the dictator’s suicide and the only surviving…

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In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional. The historic decision, which brought an end to federal tolerance of racial segregation, specifically dealt with Linda Brown, a young African American girl who had been denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka, Kansas, because of the color of her skin.