Former con-man Harksen repays money at 100 euros a month 04/05/2008
Following a prison sentence, famous ex con man Juergen Harksen will be paying off standing debts to those he tricked at a rate of 100 euros a month.
Berlin referendum on keeping Tempelhof Airport open fails 29/04/2008
City Mayor Klaus Wowereit said ahead of the plebiscite, pushed through by Tempelhof supporters, that he would in any case ignore the non-binding vote.... read more
Emperor Nero's gate discovered in Cologne 25/04/2008
The gate, found complete with 11 meters of wall, was a goods-delivery entrance to the Roman town from its river port outside on the Rhine.... read more
German scientists make breakthrough on Alzheimer's cure 25/04/2008
It may not be practicable for human patients for another 10 years.... read more
Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany 23/04/2008
Editors will distil 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September.... read more
Token strikes delay 3 million letters in Germany 22/04/2008
Services union Verdi said 800 of its members had walked off the job in nine sorting centers.... read more
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- Wolfgang Wagner gives blessing to two-daughter succession: The festival in Germany has always been run by descendants of 19th century German opera great Richard Wagner....
- Australian warship inquiry set to clear Germans: The first pictures of the HMAS Sydney confirm that sailors aboard the German ship that sank it in 1941 were telling the truth: Australia's worst maritime disaster was self-inflicted....
- European "space truck" docks at space station: A live telecast, watched with bated breath by the craft's assemblers in Bremen, Germany, showed how computers guided the arriving craft smoothly throughout the slow maneuver, succeeding on its first attempt....
- Historic Marshall Plan marks 60th anniversary: The plan would go down in history as the most successful US civilian reconstruction project of the 20 century....
- Eurosceptics up in arms over ”Jurassic lark”: Eurosceptic MP David Heathcoat-Amory reacted angrily after the EU officially sanctioned a proposed project to recreate the egg of the Dodo, extinct 300 years before the union was formed....
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