Fifty years on since Munich Olympics massacre

Germany and Israel's presidents will on Monday lead commemorations marking 50 years since the Munich Olympics attack.

A row over the financial offer previously made by Berlin to victims' relatives had threatened to sour the ceremony, with family members planning a boycott. But a deal was finally agreed on Wednesday for Berlin to provide 28 million euros ($28 million) in compensation. It also sees the German state acknowledging its "responsibility" in failings that led to the deaths of 11 Israelis.

On September 5, 1972, eight gunmen of the Palestinian militant group Black September stormed into the Israeli team's flat at the Olympic village, shooting dead two and taking nine Israelis hostage.

West German police responded with a bungled rescue operation in which all nine hostages were killed, along with five of the eight hostage-takers and a police officer.