Germany

Report: DiCaprio romancing model Vyalitsyna

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the 'Cinema For Peace Berlin 2009' during the 59th Berlin International Film Festival at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt on February 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

Germany Titters Over Campaign Cleavage

A new campaign advertisement is raising eyebrows in Germany because of its frank and humorous display of breasts .

In Europe, 'cash for clunkers' drives sales

For months, European car buyers have been junking clunkers for cash, boosting automakers sales - but making experts fear that once the government handouts stop, the struggling car industry will return to a slump no pile of cash can conquer.

German satirical political party campaigns to rebuild Berlin Wall

A satirical political party that calls for rebuilding the Berlin Wall has launched a campaign fronting a chancellor candidate chosen at a casting call to add pizzaz and humor to Germany's largely predictable parliamentary election.

Germany proposes unmanned moon landing for 2015 ...

Germany should try to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by around 2015, the government official in charge of aerospace matters said on Wednesday.

Liechtenstein & UK agree tax disclosure deal

Liechtenstein and Britain have signed an agreement to encourage British clients of banks in the Alpine principality to voluntarily disclose untaxed money.

German teenager charged over failed school massacre

State prosecutors in Germany have charged a 16-year-old schoolgirl with attempted murder for planning to burn her classmates alive this year.

Posters of Angela Merkel's cleavage spice up German election campaign

An election campaign poster for the upcoming general election with the words ' We have more to offer' shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vera Lengsfeld Photo: REUTERS The election placards have been put up by Vera Lengsfeld, a member of Mrs Merkel's own conservative CDU party, who is running in a left-wing district of Berlin for a seat in ...

German, 90, jailed for Nazi war crimes

Josef Scheungraber enters court with his lawyers, Christian Stuenkel and Rainer Thesen to hear the verdict.

Hordes of schoolkids put Stasi memorial in the red

A record number of schoolchildren visiting the former prison of Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police is threatening to bankrupt the memorial.

Army judge: Torture couldn't possibly have caused accused 9/11 conspirator's psychological distress

A US Army judge has ruled that defense attorneys for Ramzi bin al Shibh , a Yemeni man accused of having co-conspired the 9/11 attacks, may not learn what "interrogation techniques" CIA agents used on him before he was moved to Guantanamo.

Klum's jewelry dreams ended with lawsuit

German model Heidi Klum looks on during a promotional event on May 25, 2009 in Munich, Germany.

Ground segment declared ready for CryoSat-2 launch

An Earth observation mission does not just involve the building of a satellite, it also includes the all-important infrastructure to control the satellite and handle the data - the ground segment.

Climate talks resume with new emissions pledges

Wealthy countries are not going far enough to control greenhouse gas emissions, activists said Monday as delegates from 180 nations resumed talks on a global climate change pact.

Two PV firms now under Bosch fold

MUNICH, GERMANY: Expanding its presence in the photovoltaics horizon, Stuttgart-based Bosch group recently bought over two companies, who are makers of module including CIGS thin-film ones.

New Zealand to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 10-20%

The New Zealand government on Monday announced a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 10 percent to 20 percent below 1990 levels, by 2020.

Beuth Hochschule fuer Technik Berlin Chooses Avenza's MAPublisher and Geographic Imager

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce that the Civil Engineering and Geoinformation department at Beuth University of Berlin , formerly Technische Fachhochschule in Berlin Germany has deployed multiple licenses of both ...

Will love blossom between Knut the polar bear and his new Italian roommate?

The wilderness years are over. According to a report in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, Germany's favorite polar bear , Knut, will soon be sharing his home with an Italian lady friend, courtesy of the Munich Zoo Hellabrunn.

Three Turks sentenced in Germany for terror activities

BERLIN, Germany -- A Stuttgart court sentenced on Friday two Turkish nationals and a German citizen to prison terms of up to five years for membership in a banned Turkish terror group.

Witness at John Demjanjuk trial whose last wish is to see justice

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Kurt Gutmann - a German Jew who once served in the Black Watch - has waited for more than 60 years to see someone tried for the murder of his mother and brother in Nazi death camps.