Friday 27th January, 2012
German arrested in Islamabad
A German national was arrested Friday in the Pakistani capital for illegally staying in the country. Police carried out a raid Friday morning at the house where the German was living and arrested ...
Renewed bid for UNSC expansion by India, others
India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, collectively known as the G-4 group of countries, have made a joint bid for the expansion of the UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent ...
G-4 makes joint bid for UNSC expansion
India, Brazil, Germany and Japan have made a joint bid for the expansion of the UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of membership. Collectively known as G-4, the ...
German Angst as U.S. troops bid "Auf Wiedersehen"
West AustralianGRAFENWOEHR, Germany (Reuters) - Walter Brunner, a lively 82-year old whose blue baseball cap matches the color of his eyes, leans across a red leather booth at the American-style diner in this ...
Germany reminded of neo-Nazi peril on Holocaust day
West AustralianBERLIN (Reuters) - Germany marked the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Friday facing serious doubt about how well its institutions are dealing with right-wing ...
Deutsche Bank boss sees Greece debt deal
The LocalThe head of Germany's top bank, Deutsche Bank, said Friday he was confident a solution could be found to Greece's woes amid reports of progress in talks between Athens and banks on a debt ...
Mecca Turns West: Roads of Arabia Run Through Berlin
Spiegel OnlineIt is a premier for Germany. Never before have artifacts from Islam's holiest site, the Kabaa in Mecca, been on display in the country. A new exhibit in Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum ...
Eurozone crisis | Save the euro - get rid of Germany
presseuropBy foisting fiscal austerity on its Eurozone partners while stubbornly refusing an enhanced role for the ECB, and greater mutual support on national debt, Germany is a greater hindrance than a help ...
The German Labour Miracle
ForbesSadly we’ve yet another piece in the UK press looking at the German labour market and assuming that we should copy some or other part of it. The sadly part comes from the way that no one ever ...
Samsung loses again in German patent suit against Apple
ComputerworldIDG News Service - The district court in Mannheim, Germany, has again sided with Apple in a patent suit brought by Samsung Electronics, saying on Friday that the company had not infringed on a ...
Analysis - Weaker euro helps Spain and Italy, not Germany
General SourcesGermany is the champion of exporters, but it may not be getting as much of a boost from a newly weaker euro as advertised -- indeed, there is evidence that the bigger beneficiaries could be the ...
German exhibit explores discount culture
Expatica GermanyA shopping trolley immersed in seven tonnes of white sugar, 2,000 vacuum-packed sausages littering the floor, thousands of slices of bread forming little houses.These installations are not classic ...
Berlin confirms German kidnapped in Nigeria
Expatica GermanyGermany confirmed Friday that one of its nationals had been kidnapped in Nigeria, a day after police in the north of the country said gunmen had abducted a German engineer.A foreign ministry ...
Germany confirms kidnapping of national in Nigeria
Expatica GermanyGermany confirmed Friday that one of its nationals had been kidnapped in Nigeria, a day after police in the north of the country said gunmen had abducted a German engineer.A foreign ministry ...
Nigeria's Islamists threaten new attacks
Expatica GermanyNigerian security forces searched for a kidnapped German engineer on Friday as the Boko Haram Islamist group threatened new attacks in Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer.In an ...
Germany remembers Holocaust on Auschwitz liberation anniversary
Expatica GermanyGerman lawmakers have commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day with speeches from the Bundestag president and a literary critic and survivor of the Warsaw ...
Deutsche Bank chief 'confident' of Greece solution
Expatica GermanyThe head of Germany's top bank, Deutsche Bank, said Friday he was confident a solution could be found to Greece's woes amid reports of progress in talks between Athens and banks on a debt ...
There's been a new migration to Berlin from across Europe since the EU opened up, but few have flocked in like the Spanish, it seems. As DW's Stuart Braun found out, most have little choice but to stay.
DW-WorldSaturday night in Berlin. The subway is packed and, amid the laughter and clinking of beer bottles, polyglot tongues shift between German, English, Italian, Swedish - and above it all, Spanish, the ...
'Muslim taxi' offers gender-segregated rides
The Localmitfahrgelegenheit.de , which lets cost-conscious Germans arrange shared car rides. Those interested in offering rides specify their gender, asking price and how many passengers they can ...
German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria
The LocalGunmen on Thursday abducted a German engineer working with a construction company on the outskirts of the violence-hit Nigerian city of Kano, police ...
Chills and snow are on the way
The LocalNew tool unravels Stasi secret files On Friday much of Germany will be swept with rain and snow from Schleswig-Holstein in the north down to the Alps in the south. Precipitation will be particularly ...
Bulgarian FinMin: Euro Can Go, We're Pegged to Deutsche Mark
NoviniteBulgarian Finance Minister Simeon Djankov is calm since the Bulgarian lev is actually tied to the "deutsche mark". Photo by ...
Survivor recalls WWII ghetto in German Parliament
Miami HeraldBERLIN -- A survivor has recalled the beginning of the end of the Warsaw ghetto as Germany's Parliament met to remember the victims of the Nazi Holocaust.The 91-year-old Marcel Reich-Ranicki, ...
Dutch to host Germany in November
FIFAIt will be the third time the rivals meet this year, coming after their impending first round match at the 2012 UEFA European Championships on 13 June in Ukraine and a November friendly last year ...
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