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Britain calls for global finance summitBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Wednesday for global talks among the world's top economies this year to reform the world's financial system.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 18:09
Shah Rukh Khan cancels shows in Germany, Spain
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has cancelled three live song-and-dance shows, part of his Temptation Reloaded world tour, scheduled in Germany this week, leading to arguments between the tour's Indian ...
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 13:37
Left Party Chooses TV Detective as Presidential Candidate
Germany's Left Party has voted to send TV actor Peter Sodann up against more experienced political opponents as its candidate in the coming campaign for president.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 15-Oct-2008 13:19
Germany's Merkel Pushes for Financial Rescue Package
In a speech to the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged lawmakers to support her government's plan for a financial rescue package worth 500 billion euros ($670 billion).
Source : Deutsche Welle | 15-Oct-2008 11:34
Political Bailout: Gordon Brown Saves the Banks and Himself
Before the financial crisis, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown had been all but written off.
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 08:55
Regional States Show Solidarity for Huge German Rescue Plan
The banking crisis has made bedfellows of rival parties across Germany's political spectrum, with a majority of parliamentarians agreeing that the regional states need to support the federal bailout.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 15-Oct-2008 07:48
Striebel Projektmanagement and Dolce Hotels & Resorts Break Ground on the $70 million Dolce Munich
Continuing to build on its strength in Europe, Andy Dolce, founder and managing partner of Dolce Hotels and Resorts, joined the Secretary of State of the Bavarian Finance Ministry, Georg Fahrenschon and ...
Source : topix.net | 15-Oct-2008 04:19
German woman sentenced to life for killing toddlers
The court agreed with the prosecution that the woman acted out of jealousy in her attempt to harm her ex-boyfriend and his new partner.
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 01:26
Barroso urges EU to endorse 2-trillion-euro rescue plan
"I am pleased to see that there is now a consensus on the necessity and on the substance of a coherent effort."
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 01:11
Indian minister's son charged with raping German girl
Rohit Monserrate, 21, son of Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate, was also booked on charges of obscenity
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 00:56
EU ambitions of Turkey highlighted at Book Fair
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul praised the guest-of-honor week as a "major step in the long-standing German-Turkish friendship."
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 00:41
Germany on the edge of recession, economists warn
In their twice-yearly report released in Berlin, the eight institutes slashed their German growth forecast for next year to just 0.2 percent.
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 00:26
Bollywood star cancels Germany super-shows
Shah Rukh Khan is reportedly in the middle of contract disputes.
Source : expatica.com | 15-Oct-2008 00:11
Nikkei record extends global rebound
Japan's financial markets led a wave of rallies across the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, in part fueled by anticipation of more government investment in ailing banks.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 23:17
Google Loses Court Battle Over Image Searches
A German photographer and an artist won lawsuits against Google for displaying thumbnails of their works in search results without permission. Google will reportedly appeal the ruling.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 14-Oct-2008 16:37
Welthungerhilfe: Hunger Crisis Worse than Financial Crisis
With almost a billion people worldwide going hungry, the German aid organization Welthungerhilfe has warned that the financial crisis should not push their suffering in the background.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 14-Oct-2008 15:44
Making Sense Of Health Statistics
Presidential candidates use them to persuade voters, drug companies use them to sell their products, and the media spin them in all kinds of ways, but nobody - candidates, reporters, let alone health consumers ...
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 15:14
EU to guarantee interbank lending
Fifteen EU countries meeting in a Paris summit that began late last night Hong Kong time will guarantee new medium-term loans between banks in an attempt to end the credit crunch, according to a draft statement ...
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 09:14
Hippie apes make war as well as love, study finds
By Michael Kahn
LONDON (Reuters) - Despite their reputation as lovers not fighters of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and eat other great apes, German researchers said Monday.
Their findings, the first direct evidence of hunting by the so-called "hippie" apes, show that such behavior is not linked to male dominance as females rule bonobo society and also go on hunts.
"We always have this view that hunting is a male business," said Gottfried Hohmann of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "What our study shows is this is not necessarily the case.
Source : topix.net | 14-Oct-2008 01:45
Key European governments unveil huge bank rescue deals
Germany pledges 70 billion to recapitalize banks
Source : expatica.com | 14-Oct-2008 01:20
Uwe Teller wins German Book Prize
He won the award for The Tower, a monumental work describing the collapse of communist East Germany two decades ago.
Source : expatica.com | 14-Oct-2008 01:05
Milan Kundera denounced Western spy to Communists
Police records show that Kundera, who later gained fame as an anti-communist and author, denounced a young Czech exile who was spying in his native country in 1950.
Source : expatica.com | 14-Oct-2008 00:50
Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks
European governments overcame their differences to put $2.3 trillion on the line Monday in guarantees and other emergency measures to save the banking system in their most unified response yet to the global ...
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 21:19
German Government Announces Rescue Deal for Banks
The German government has announced a rescue package for its banks which would include 80 billion euros ($108 billion) in fresh capital and 400 billion euros in loan guarantees, the finance ministry said in a statement.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 13-Oct-2008 14:42
TUI to sell Hapag-Lloyd shipping unit
FRANKFURT, Germany : German tourism company TUI AG said Sunday it will sell its marine shipping unit Hapag-Lloyd to a consortium of investors in a 4.45 billion deal.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 14:13
Car Industry Clamours for State Handouts
Other European business sectors are likely to seek government aid similar to that offered this week to banks, according to EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen. Carmakers would already like a slice of the cake.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 13-Oct-2008 13:30
Police: German wanted for planned terrorist attack not in country
He was last seen among Islamist radicals in Afghanistan or Pakistan, police say.
Source : expatica.com | 13-Oct-2008 13:01
Arrested Iranian businessman was German agent
The spy's intelligence had been so good that it prompted concern as to whether he might be a double agent hoodwinking the West on Iran's orders.
Source : expatica.com | 13-Oct-2008 12:46
Blame Dad: Scientists discover paternal baldness gene
Once they discover how the gene influences hair growth, it will be possible to consider therapies that thwart the effect.
Source : expatica.com | 13-Oct-2008 12:31
Markets to give final verdict on world's show of unity
It was a weekend of heavy promises and calls for joint action as the world economies offered a plan of action.
Source : expatica.com | 13-Oct-2008 12:16
Artist lays Prague's first memorial ?stumbling blocks?
A German sculptor this week placed 10 memorial cubes into the Prague streetscape, the first in the Czech Republic.
Source : expatica.com | 13-Oct-2008 12:01
Financial Crisis Merkel's Greatest Challenge, Experts Say
Estimates of the cost to the German taxpayer of rescuing banks still varied wildly, with high-end guesses coming in at 400 billion euros. The government said it would announce details of the bailout on Monday.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 13-Oct-2008 07:33
New Genetic Links to Baldness Discovered
New genetic links to male pattern baldness have been discovered by researchers in England and Germany.
Source : topix.net | 13-Oct-2008 06:06
UK university holds artificial intelligence test
Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.
Typing away at split-screen terminals, a dozen volunteers carried out two conversations at once: one with a chat program, the other with a human. After five minutes, they were asked to say which was which. Some were not sure who _ or what _ they were talking to.
'There was one time when I was speaking to the two, and there was an element of humor in both conversations. That's the one that stumped me more than others,' said Ian Andrews, one of the judges in Reading, just west of London.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 21:49
Thousands demonstrate in Berlin for more privacy
The Stop This Surveillance Madness rally had Berliners out protesting ?the surveillance? state.
Source : expatica.com | 12-Oct-2008 19:25
Merkel repeats opposition to European banking bailout fund
She said countries need to have "the same toolboxes" to fight the crisis but also the flexibility to use those instruments as they see fit.
Source : expatica.com | 12-Oct-2008 19:10
Austrian far-right politician Haider dies in car accident
He was remembered as a skillful and charismatic politician but also as a divisive figure.
Source : expatica.com | 12-Oct-2008 18:55
Selection of peace candidates a tricky matter
Speculation before the announcement Friday had centered on dissidents in China and activists in Russia.
Source : expatica.com | 12-Oct-2008 18:40
Dirndls, oom-pah, sausages? Oktoberfest in Iraq
Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 16:40
Resilient America struggles
It seems only yesterday we heard the loud warnings that America's finest days lay behind it, its days as the reigning world economic power fast slipping away.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 12:03
Germany readies legislation for its part in G7 bailout
Germany is to rush through legislation in the new week to recapitalise its banks with a vast cash injection of up to 100 billion euros , according to media reports Saturday.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 07:36
Germany raids sites linked to rightist youth
The German authorities carried out nationwide raids Thursday as part of an investigation into a youth group accused of indoctrinating children and teenagers with neo-Nazi ideals.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 03:14
Victory Motorcycles Plans Euro Expansion
Victory Motorcycles, the motorcycle division of Polaris Industries, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary by announcing expansion of its European distribution into Germany.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 22:41
Germany to Announce Comprehensive Bank Rescue Package
Germany is preparing a bail-out that permits the recapitalization of banks with billions of euros in cash injections, according to news reports. The IMF warned of the growing possibility of a global finance "meltdown."
Source : Deutsche Welle | 11-Oct-2008 22:12
Germans See Salvation in State-Owned Banks
As private banks falter under the financial crisis, state-owned Sparkasse savings banks are enjoying a flood of new business as Germans deposit their money in the institutions based on a traditional bank model.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 11-Oct-2008 21:02
New Privacy Scandal Comes Calling at Telekom
One day after assuring customers it was implementing new privacy protection measures, Deutsche Telekom was struck by another security lapse. The company said it patched the holes allowing outside access to customer data.
Source : Deutsche Welle | 11-Oct-2008 19:07