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A former German officer who helped save Bordeaux's port from destruction by Nazi forces in World War II has died.
In a story Jan. 26 about the asylum case of a German couple who fled to the U.S. to homeschool their children, The Associated Press misidentified the family's hometown in Germany. The family is from Bissingen an der Teck, not Bietigheim-Bissingen.
A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that represented them.
Infielder Esteban German has agreed to a one-year contract with the Texas Rangers.
Germany's top military commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday he stood "fully behind" the German commander who called in a U.S. airstrike on fuel trucks hijacked by Taliban that killed civilians as well as insurgents.
A European Union naval spokesman says Somali pirates have received a ransom to release a German vessel they have been holding for more than three months.
Wolfsburg has won its first German league title by beating Werder Bremen 5-1.
Kidnappers released on Friday three Germans abducted in Yemen after the Yemeni government paid a $100,000 ransom and agreed to another demand to release tribesmen from prison, officials and a mediator said.
German is famous for its long words — and today's youth are just as adept at creating new ones as their predecessors, to judge by a poll released Wednesday by the publishers of Langenscheidt dictionaries.
Germany's Jewish community sharply criticized Liechtenstein's head of state Thursday, accusing him of trivializing Nazi atrocities after his comments appeared to describe modern-day Germany as a "fourth" Reich.
Toyota driver Timo Glock was taken to the hospital Sunday after hitting a concrete barrier at high speed during the German Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix on Sunday, solidifying his lead in the Formula One standings with two dramatic passes that made up for a strategic blunder by his McLaren team.
In the rural outskirts of Baghdad, where the war seems distant in Iraq's new period of relative calm, a prominent Sunni tribal chief makes no bones about what is lacking in the drive to turn security improvements into lasting economic and political reform.
Chinese state news agency says that German tourist has been rescued after being buried for 114 hours in earthquake rubble.
A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22.
During his trip to New York, the first German pope in centuries will visit one of the last places in the city's Roman Catholic archdiocese that still regularly offers Mass in German.
A Bulgarian official revealed Friday that the country's communist-era border troops killed East Germans and others who tried to get to the West by sneaking across this Balkan country's borders during the Cold War.
A search for an Australian navy battle cruiser lost in 1941 has led to the wreck of the German raider that sank it, the prime minister said Sunday.
A German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran has died at the age of 107, a death that almost went unnoticed in a nation that lost both world wars and doesn't track its remaining veterans.
The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut — who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood — now has company.
A German man was detained as a suspected terrorist at Guantanamo Bay for four years despite findings by U.S. investigators that he had no link to al-Qaida, newly released documents say.
A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for five imprisoned criminals, an Afghan official said.
A German engineer held by Taliban insurgents since July pleaded in a new videotape Monday for the Afghan and German governments to make a deal with the militants for his release before winter.
Will the German allegations of sex abuse "touch" Pope Benedict XVI?"The scandal took a new turn Friday, when news broke that 30 years ago, Pope Benedict XVI -- who was an archbishop at the time -- approved providing a priest accused of child sex abuse church accommodations in his diocese so the priest could undergo therapy.
German Priest in Church Abuse Case Is SuspendedThe priest, Peter Hullermann, who had previously been identified only by the first letter of his last name, was suspended from his duties only on Monday.
German Diocese Suspends Priest Convicted Of Child Molestation in 1986BERLIN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese says it has suspended a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors and accepted the resignation of his superior.
Audi blasts past French speed trap at 300 kph French police have arrested a man caught driving a German-registered sports car so fast that their speed trap couldn't clock the estimated 300 kilometres (186 miles) per hour he was travelling.
Local Utilities Oppose Nuclear Extension, Handelsblatt Reports German local utilities are opposing a plan by the German government to extend the lives of nuclear reactors, Handelsblatt reported, citing a report by the local utilities it obtained.
Pope's brother: I hit children while working at boarding school The Pope's brother gave a rare insight yesterday into a pervasive culture of violence at Roman Catholic institutions, admitting that he hit children while he was choirmaster at a German boarding school.
Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch scrapyardEU nuke boffins say that mysterious bits of uranium found last year in a Dutch scrapyard originated in the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s.
Punished for Love: Man Indicted for Breaking Into Prison Prison walls were no obstacle for a man in western Germany who was being separated from his love. But breaking into her cell every night turned out to be a very bad decision.
German police tackle 'school attack'German police are evacuating a school in the western city of Ludwigshafen, where one person has been reported seriously injured in an attack.
Soviet soldier who hoisted flag over Reichstag in 1945 dies - thestar.comMOSCOW-A Red Army soldier who appears in a historic photograph helping hoist a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died, officials said. He was 93.
German historians plan Hitler's Mein Kampf reprint BERLIN (Reuters) – German historians plan to reissue Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," the partly autobiographical book which outlined the Nazi dictator's vision of racial supremacy.
Scoring a German: Flirting with Fraeuleins, Hunting for HerrenInterested in bagging a German? It's not quite as easy as you might hope. Flirting here is different and much more subtle. And it's taken very seriously.
Cops bill owner after running over dog A German woman has hired a lawyer after discovering the police had sent her a hefty bill for damage to a patrol car that was used to deliberately run over her beloved dog.
Ve haff vays off makink you work Outdated stereotype raises ireLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has banned a radio ad featuring a man speaking loudly in German and which asked: "Is your boss a bit of a tyrant?"
Shakira Boosting Spanish Classes in High SchoolsSpanish-speaking pop star Shakira was credited with drawing in record numbers of English teenagers to learn her language yesterday, as research revealed that more state secondary schools are teaching Spanish than German for the first time.
Real Tongue Twisters: What is the Most Difficult Language?It may be natural to think that your own tongue is complex and mysterious. But English is pretty simple: verbs hardly conjugate; nouns pluralise easily (just add "s", mostly) and there are no genders to remember.
Family refuses to claim 'lonely corpse' in Austria Austrian officials are struggling to find a final resting place for a dead German man whom no one wants. The man's relatives refuse to claim the "lonely corpse" because he left a mountain of debt behind when he died six weeks ago.
71-year-old murders grandson in FloridaA 71-year-old German woman has been arrested in Florida for murdering her grandson to keep him from growing up with divorced parents in the United States.
BBC News - European Muslims prefer mixed areas - surveyMost of Europe's Muslims want to live in mixed communities, not segregated neighbourhoods, a new report says. The work by the Open Society Institute (OSI), an independent think-tank, looked at the social integration of Muslims in 11 West European cities.
Muslim inventor set to take orthopaedic prayer rugs worldwide Ritual prayer for Muslims with knee problems can be painful, but an entrepreneur in Germany has patented a revolutionary solution to facilitate a centuries-old tradition – orthopaedic prayer rugs.
German Jewish leader condemns Swiss vote and Europe's growing anti-Muslim viewsStephan Kramer from the German Jewish Council warned that Switzerland's vote to ban mosques with minarets was an expression of Europe's deep-seated aversion to Islam (Islamophobia).
Lincoln Square Christkind Market Chef Cooking up Strudel!Join us for the Lincoln Square Christkindl Market December 4-6 at Lincoln & Leland in Chicago!
Robin Hood banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clientsIn these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the industry is in it for themselves.
BBC News - Afghan corruption a political obstacleThe problem of corruption in Afghanistan was highlighted recently when an international survey placed the country as the second most corrupt in the world. It was beaten only by Somalia.
Ryanair sued for allegedly buzzing German grannyMembers of a small community near the northern German city of Lübeck have filed a lawsuit against Irish budget airline Ryanair after a low-flying plane allegedly put an 82-year-old woman in the hospital.
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