Several federal and regional government officials in Germany are trying to put a ban on Google Analytics, the search giant's free software product that allows website owners and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behavior of their vis …

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Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them.

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A circus lion, called Caesar, is fighting fit again after an ordeal that saw the van he was being transported in stolen in Germany by an unwitting thief.

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A retired accountant whose daughter was killed 27 years ago was facing charges last night over the alleged abduction of the man he always blamed for her death. The man was left bound, gagged and injured outside a French courtroom.

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A former US soldier has returned two historic books he took as "souvenirs" during World War II.

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Researchers at the Hohenstein Institute in Stuttgart, Germany developed a method to embed multipotent mesenchymal stem cells onto the surface fibers of common surgical fabric implants.

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A German doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift as an out-of-hours locum GP failed in his first attempt to win the right to work in Britain, the Guardian can reveal.

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Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.

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Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material.

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Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento -- the 30 cm long tail of a Lego giraffe.

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A 10-month-old baby girl was the only survivor of a brutal bloodbath at a German camping site in which a married couple and their 29-year-old daughter were stabbed to death.

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A former Soviet military base in eastern Germany, including two bunkers used to store nuclear warheads during the Cold War, has been put up for sale.

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The remains of more than 2,000 people believed to be German civilians killed at the end of World War II have been reburied in Poland.

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A former German infantry commander has been jailed for life for his role in the killing of 14 civilians in an Italian village during World War II.

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A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.

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Somali pirates vanished within minutes of freeing a German cargo ship, taking with them a $US2.7 million ($3.22 million) ransom and toothbrushes belonging to the entire crew, a navy captain says.

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As researchers rush to commercialize printable batteries that pattern organic semiconductors onto paper-thin, flexible substrates, a German team claims to be on-track for a 2010 product launch.

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Knut the polar bear, who became a worldwide media sensation as a cub in 2007, will soon be joined in Berlin zoo by Gianna, a female companion originally from Italy.

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THEY occur at a rate of nearly one a night, without warning or fanfare. By the time the police arrive, all that remains are smoking wrecks. Even the identifying badges — Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, VW — are often obliterated by fire.

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A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies.

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Michael Jackson found himself in the files of the East German secret police because of a concert he gave right next to the Berlin Wall in 1988, Bild reports.

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German tourists can now reserve their poolside recliners before they have even left home.

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The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.

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Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.

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German prosecutors have launched an enquiry into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Hitler salute in a Nuremberg art gallery is against the law.

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