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German carmaker Volkswagen AG said Friday its supervisory board had approved certain agreement contracts for the planned merger with German sportscar builder Porsche, taking the companies one step closer to completing the deal. Complete Story...
General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, but did not specify the amount of cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek.
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG said Thursday its fourth quarter net income rose sharply from a large loss a year ago as the company saw cost reductions help its results.
German prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion.
A look at recent prosecutions of suspected Nazi war criminals in Germany.
A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder Tuesday after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers.
Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo.
Former basketball star Dennis Rodman was temporarily detained in Germany for allegedly skipping out on a euro3,400 ($5,100) hotel bill for a post-game party, a prosecution official said Monday.
A new database with the names of some 70,000 Soviet prisoners of war held in Germany during the Third Reich is now available online, the Saxony state government said in a statement Monday.
Germany will extend its mission in Afghanistan for another year, the government said Wednesday, despite the growing unpopularity of the war at home.
The 26-year-old man charged with trying to extort $100,000 (euro67,258) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford has surrendered, German prosecutors said Tuesday.
German car maker Volkswagen AG said Friday that its group deliveries were up 11 percent on the year in October, helped by strong increases in China and Brazil and a smaller rise in the U.S.
German prosecutors said Friday they have dropped an investigation of a Russian businessman who had been suspected of transporting a radioactive substance used in the fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent in London in 2006.
Germany will send more than 100 extra troops to Afghanistan in January, the country's defense minister said Friday.
The suicide death of Robert Enke left Germany stunned Wednesday, sending the soccer-obsessed country into mourning and leaving the national team without its top goalkeeper for next year's World Cup.
Throughout the Cold War, Germany was the steadfast trans-Atlantic ally — and France the perpetual skeptic. Paris snubbed NATO, booted allied soldiers off its soil and sought a privileged relationship with Moscow.
The trial of an 88-year-old man accused of murdering three civilians in wartime Holland as part of a Nazi hit squad was postponed Tuesday until next week on medical grounds.
General Motors Co. said Tuesday that a senior executive who now runs its international divisions will take over responsibility for the European Opel and Vauxhall units while the company searches for a permanent chief executive.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and India to make substantive pledges of action against global warming in order to prevent the failure of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.
Two men have been charged in the killing of a 49-year-old German man on the Caribbean island of Tobago.
President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fall 20 years ago of the Berlin Wall in a video message to the main anniversary event.
A selection of comments from ceremonies, remembrances of the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
The chief executive of General Motors Co. met with leaders of its Opel unit on Monday to discuss the European subsidiary's automaker's future, a week after GM abruptly decided to keep it instead of selling a majority stake.
The United States and Germany stepped up pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday to implement major reforms and crack down on rampant corruption.
Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead — to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will play in 21st century society.
Desire Drug May Prove Sex Really Is All in Her Head German scientists working for the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH in Freiburg have been developing a pill to treat 'hypoactive sexual desire disorder'.
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.
DAWN.COM | Business | Pakistan slips five places in global corruption listISLAMABAD: In its Corruption Perception Index for 2009, the Transparency International has placed Pakistan at the 42nd place, slipping five places from 2008 when it was at 47.
German orchestra to play in brothel Punters and employees at the Eros Centre in Leipzig would be treated on Friday to six musicians and a singer from the city's Forum for Contemporary Music (FZML) performing "licentious and erotic" works, the orchestra promises.
Stork Amputee Gets an Artificial LegIn August, Dietmar arrived in a bird reserve located between Dresden and Leipzig suffering from a broken leg. The sanctuary staff did everything they could to help Dietmar, but in the end the limb had to be amputated. However it has now been replaced with a carbon prosthesis.
Germany Strains to Fund Health Care for All Germany's century-old universal health-care system, a model cited by reform advocates in the U.S. Congress, is buckling under the weight of a growing deficit that has forced the government to explore an overhaul.
Germany arrests top Rwanda rebelsPolice in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
How the Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas What is alarming German visitors is the realisation that, in many cases, they have been brought up with a variation of the Third Reich Christmas.
Another apology. This time for kids shipped from Britain to coloniesLovely cartoon. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a ... apology Monday to ... British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony ...
Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole ChristmasMore than 30 years after Rita Breuer first began collecting Christmas knickknacks, selected objects from the family collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne.
Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 Nov 1989More than 100,000 people celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 1989 - world leaders gathered in the German capital for commemorations marking the spread of freedom across Europe.
Why Build High Rises When We Can Build Mountains?Dubbed "the Berg", architect Jakob Tigges' 1,000-meter-high structure would be the largest artificial mountain in the world. If built, it would take the place of the now-defunct Tempelhof Airport, a massive, Naz-designed structure in the center of the city.
Thief unwittingly steals circus lionA 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.
British bishop Richard Williamson to go on trial in Germany for Holocaust denial British Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson faces trial in Germany for an outspoken TV interview in which he denied that the wartime extermination of the Jews took place.
World Freedom Day 2009 - 20th Anniversary of Reagan's achievementI wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!
Dresden Courtroom Killer Gets LifeAlex W., the man who stabbed pregnant Egyptian pharmacist Marwa al-Sherbini to death in a courtroom in Dresden in July, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. The judge imposed the harshest possible sentence under the German system by ruling that W.
Germany and France Celebrate Armistice Day TogetherThis year will be the first time a German chancellor has ever participated in the commemoration of Armistice Day, when Germany was defeated in France.
Questioning Assumptions about Gender and the Legacy of the GDRAs is well known, the so-called gender contract of the GDR espoused the ideal of the working mother. Official propaganda claimed that the GDR was a fully emancipated country, in which women were an active and productive force in the public sphere.
It is said that societies that do not know history are doomed to repeat it. In some sense then it is fitting that today, November the 9th, will pass in relative obscurity for most Americans.
Berlin Wall blunderUS Presidents from Kennedy to Reagan demanded the removal of the Berlin Wall as an affront to freedom and liberty. At the 20th Anniversery of the removal of the barricade and the freedom and economic liberation of the former East Germany President Obama appears to snub the event .
The Victory of the Cross by Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, and Vince Haley As we remember in gratitude the demise of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of Soviet Communism, let us also remember that when human freedom and dignity were under assault during the Cold War, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan were in agreement that the spiritual nature …
The Year the Wall Fell Still Causes Debate Who really felled the Berlin Wall? And what does it mean today? Depends who you ask...
Guarding Balance of Power at Iron Curtain's Edge - WSJ.comFor those who served in Germany during the Cold War. Thank you for your service, your sacrifices and devotion to duty. This might bring back some memories.
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