Wire Service Backtracks On Photo Choice

“We apologise for any offence cause by this unfortunate human error. The photograph was removed from the story as soon as we realised the mistake and we have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again in the future.”
-Britain’s Press Association news agency expresses its regret over a picture it supplied to illustrate a story about a woman who was verbally abused by a group of soccer fans on a train. The PA’s photo selection was “unmistakably the railway line leading up to the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where, according to some estimates, more than one million Jews were massacred by the Nazis.” [Via]