Euro Unity? It's Germany That Matters The New York Times | PARIS — Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be. | In the run-up to the common currency’s debut in 1999, the air was thick with talk about harnessing Germany’s economic power, then enshrined in the mark. A fail...
No proof atom-smasher will end world The Daily Telegraph Australia | A GERMAN woman's fear Earth is to be sucked into oblivion in a black hole has failed in a court bid to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. | The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a cohe...
No proof atom-smasher will end world The Daily Telegraph Australia | A GERMAN woman's fear Earth is to be sucked into oblivion in a black hole has failed in a court bid to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. | The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's ...
Germany: Man jailed for Cindy Crawford extortion Newsvine | BERLIN — A German man who tried to blackmail supermodel Cindy Crawford with a photo of her bound and gagged 7-year-old daughter was sentenced to two years in jail Tuesday. | Edis Kayalar, 26, was found guilty after confessing that he tried to...
Bangladeshi passports to be printed in Poland Warsaw Business Journal | 9th March 2010 | A consortium which includes the Polish Security Printing Works has signed a deal to print 6.6 million passports as well as 1.5 million visa stamps for Bangladesh over the next three years. | Although the Polish company has not disc...
Georg Ratzinger, Pope's Brother, Linked To Child Abuse Scandal Rocking Church In Germany Huffington Post | Jerome Taylor, The Independent | A series of allegations in Germany and Holland have plunged the Catholic Church into a renewed crisis over how it has dealt with child abuse after it emerged that the Pope's brother ran a renowned choir at the centr...
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Berlin's Airport: Shining Beacon or Waste of Money The New York Times | BERLIN — To get Berliners arguing, bring up the new $3.4 billion airport rising just beyond the limits of this hip but economically strapped metropolis. Christoph Bangert f...
Integrate Germany's Muslims,but also defend liberal democracy Daily Star Lebanon | Commentary by | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | The relationship between the popular majority in Germany and the country’s Muslim residents is one of the foremost ...
‘Closet-Nazi’ in running for Austrian president The Daily Tribune | ANALYSIS | 03/09/2010 | VIENNA — A far-right candidate for Austria’s presidential election has brought the country’s dark past to the surface once more, after denouncing a law ba...
Germany: Man convicted for Crawford extortion Newsvine | BERLIN — A German man has been convicted of blackmailing supermodel Cindy Crawford and been sentenced to two years in jail. | The court in the southern German town of Kirchheim unter Tech said Tuesday that Edis Kayalar was found guilty of ext...
Złoty gains could stop Poland's economic growth Warsaw Business Journal | 9th March 2010 | Continued appreciation of the złoty could bring Poland's economic recovery to an end, Andrzej Rzońca, a member of the Monetary Policy Council (RPP), told Reuters. | Monetary policy outlook through this year would also be dependent ...
Germany: Man convicted for Crawford extortion The Boston Globe | BERLIN-A German man has been convicted of blackmailing supermodel Cindy Crawford and been sentenced to two years in jail. | The court in the southern German town of Kirchheim unter Tech said Tuesday that Edis Kayalar was found guilty of extorting m...
Germany's Daimler Sells Shares in India's Tata The New York Times | Filed at 4:47 a.m. ET | BERLIN (AP) -- German automaker Daimler AG says it has sold all of its shares in India's Tata Motors to various groups of investors through the capital markets. | The automaker, based in Stuttgart, said in a statement Tuesday that it will receive some euro300 million ($410 million) for its 5.34 percent stake in Tata, whose...
Germany's Daimler Sells Shares in India's Tata The New York Times | Filed at 4:47 a.m. ET | BERLIN (AP) -- German automaker Daimler AG says it has sold all of its shares in India's Tata Motors to various groups of investors through the capital markets. | The automaker, based in Stuttgart, said in a statement Tuesday that it will receive some euro300 million ($410 million) for its 5.34 percent stake in Tata, whose...
