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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.
An Ocean of Dreams - review on "Progressor" - Mindmovie's MySpace Blog "Ocean Of Dreams" is the latest effort Achim Weirschem, famed German Guitarist and Composer for over 35 years. Generally known in the line-up of the Progressive Band: "Flaming Bess", this is his first "solo" effort.
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.
'Oil and Gas Is Our Drug': Der Spiegel Interview with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev:Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talks to SPIEGEL about how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected Russia, his controversial relationship to Vladmir Putin and possible sanctions against Iran.
He considers himself an American now. A very proud American, who has lived in the United States for 20 years. I made his acquaintance while looking for a replacement vehicle after having crashed mine into a building (another story altogether).
Is Obama More Truman or Carter? by Victor Davis HansonTruman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy : Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | 9/11 passport 'found in Pakistan'Pakistan's army says it has found in South Waziristan the passport of a man linked to two hijackers involved in the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.
WWII officer who said 'nuts' to Germans diesRetired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 93.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | German on trial for Muslim murderThe trial of a man accused of stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman to death inside a German courtroom has begun in the city of Dresden. The defendant, 28-year-old Alex W, had earlier been fined for calling Marwa Sherbini "a terrorist" and "Islamist".
Average German eats 2000 animals in his life Germans enjoy eating sausages and other meat dishes so much that the average person munches their way through more than 2,000 animals in their lifetime.
Texas schools saying auf Wiedersehen to German programsPosters of snow-capped castles, Oktoberfest revelry and Albert Einstein decorate the walls of Claudia Keller's classroom in Frisco. She's only missing students. Six attend her AP German class, the only one in the school district.
Eight-year-old tries to buy candy with almost € 2,000An eight-year-old boy in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia tried to buy almost €2,000 worth of candy at a kiosk with a bundle of cash he swiped from his parents, police reported late on Tuesday.
Butt-flashing boozer dragged 200 metres while stuck to train A drunk young man was dragged 200 metres after pressing his bare buttocks to a departing train window to insult a ticket inspector who had just thrown him off, police reported on Monday.
Phishing fisting - embarrassing on-air gaff German ZDF TV presenter mixes up wordsA German newsreader made an embarrassing on-air blunder when she mixed up the terms phishing – a kind of email scam – and fisting, a sexual practice.
Why Was the Berlin Wall Built? Maybe the Answer Isn't as Simple as Many Think This piece discusses why the Berlin Wall was built and alleges one reason was to stop CIA sponsored terrorism.
German men are 'world's worst lovers' with English men in second placeA poll of 15,000 women found that Germans are considered "too smelly". English lovers came second because they are so lazy, while men from Sweden were branded "too quick to finish" and came third.
BBC NEWS | Health | Proof mounts on restricted dietReported earlier in the summer from the BBC. A US research on restricted diet done on these rhesus monkeys who were observed over 2 decades.
Leading German bloggers present web journalism manifestoFifteen leading German bloggers and online journalists have drawn up a 17-point manifesto of how they believe journalism functions in the internet era.
U.S.-German rift over Afghan deaths caseAn airstrike by U.S. fighter jets that appears to have killed Afghan civilians could turn into a major dispute between NATO allies Germany and the United States.
NATO battles backlash after Afghan airstrikeNATO officers met airstrike victims and their families in Afghanistan on Saturday and their commander took to the TV airwaves in a bid to cool anger over an incident that killed dozens of civilians.
What does it mean to be an American? Unlike most other nations on Earth, the American nation is not strictly defined in terms of race or ethnicity or ancestry or religion. Being an American is not "simply" defined by anything it seems.
Alien peed on my sunlounger - claims GermanPolice are investigating claims an alien peed on a German man's sun lounger while being chased by German fighter planes.
Around 100 professors investigated in 'bribes for doctorate' probe Around 100 university professors across the country are under investigation for taking bribes in return for 'helping' students get doctorates, it has emerged.
Naked sports booming in sizzling summer heat - Nudist golf cycling skydiving....How the Germans are spending their Summer... Naked sport is booming in the sizzling summer heatwave - and what better way is there to enjoy the outdoors than in the buff?
German Castles Cash in on Stimulus ProgramsGermany's biggest slump since the 1930s is good news for its historic palaces and castles -- they're receiving more than 320 million euros in government cash for a wave of refurbishment aimed partly at boosting the construction sector.
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