In Nuremberg, Germany, passengers of the low-cost airline "Air Berlin" refused to stay with the same airplane after two failed starting attempts. The passengers started a petition on board the airplane to force...
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On Saturday evening, a German high speed train (ICE) crashed into a flock of sheep, leaving 15 people injured and none dead. The sheep got lost in a rail tunnel near Fulda when the train approached with more than 200 km/h (125 mph). According to German police, the tunnel...
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"No, not that Michael Jackson.The other Michael Jackson, the world's leading beer critic/scholar/historian/writer, was found dead in his London home last night."
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"According to two German daily newspapers, Germany's interior ministry plans police-controlled spying of private computers to combat terrorism. Keyboard movements and password entry could also be monitored."German minister of interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, demands to perform...
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Dr. Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan from Efi Arazi School of Computer Science developed a software that allows content aware image resizing. That means that they can "scale" pictures in real-time while keeping the...
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"Kempen called for Germany's federal and state governments to reinstate the 1,451 positions that had been eliminated. "With ever fewer professors, the system cannot improve," he said."""Improvement in the quality of our higher education system and study conditions isn't...
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Several days ago, a document demanding border control to shoot everyone trying to illegally leave the GDR. Even children and women are no exception, according to the resurfaced document. Now the political...
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Several days ago, a document demanding border control to shoot everyone trying to illegally leave the GDR. Even children and women are no exception, according to the resurfaced document. Now the political discussion about the accounting for the past of the GDR...
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"Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former leader of the Red Army Faction (RAF), which committed a series of murders in the 1970s, has asked for a new identity. Germany's most notorious terrorist was paroled in March.
Mohnhaupt, 57, spent 24 years in prison for the role she played in RAF,...
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"A new study shows that welfare recipients don't get enough benefits to provide their children with a healthy diet. These kids are more likely to suffer from weight problems than their peers from better situated...
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Tomorrow on August 1 2007, a new regulation takes effect in Germany that prohibits driving with any alcohol consumed before to beginners. Before that, the drink-drive limit was at 0.3 permille for new drivers. For...
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Despite the more than 3 million unemployed people living in Germany, it may be necessary to open the job market for labourers from Eastern Europe, the "new" members of the European Union. While there may still be...
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Hardly a week passes without news about kidnapped development aid volunteers or journalists in Afghanistan...
"Germany's Foreign Ministry said it could not confirm that a German journalist in Afghanistan thought to have been kidnapped had actually been freed. International...
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