Germany were the latest World Cup giants to touch down in South Africa for the first World Cup staged on the continent.
French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that she did not believe the euro’s survival was in danger.
Germany’s Cabinet has approved the biggest national contribution to a $1-trillion emergency rescue package intended to stabilise the euro.
Ivica Olic netted a hat-trick as Bayern Munich defeated Lyon 3-0 on Tuesday to qualify for the Champions League final for the first time since 2001.
Arjen Robben’s strike sealed Bayern Munich’s 1-0 victory over Lyon in the first-leg of the Champions League semifinal on Wednesday night.
Bafana Bafana arrived in Germany on Tuesday for a two-week training camp as they step up their preparations for the Soccer World Cup.
Germany coach Joachim Loew and his staff started a meeting in a Black Forest retreat on Monday to plan a difficult Soccer World Cup build-up.
Three-time Soccer World Cup winners Germany are perennial favourites at the tournament, and will come to South Africa with high expectations.
Formula One legend Michael Schumacher has admitted that he had doubts ahead of his comeback, but that uncertainty was the secret to his success.
Americans appear set to be by far the most numerous group of foreign fans coming to South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Webcam service developed to allow strangers to chat online has become fast track to carnal gratification for some people.
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/ 4 February 2010
Nick Heidfeld joined the Mercedes Formula One team as test and reserve driver on Thursday, completing a trio of Germans in the new team’s line-up.
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/ 11 January 2010
The Arctic freeze gripping Europe left hundreds of people stuck in vehicles in deep snow or stranded at airports with scores of flights cancelled.
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/ 14 December 2009
Michael Schumacher will meet Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo this week to discuss a possible move to the new Mercedes team, said reports.
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/ 30 November 2009
John Demjanjuk (89) was brought into court on a stretcher on Monday to face charges that he helped kill tens of thousands of Jews in World War II.
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/ 27 November 2009
Ali was barely five years old when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he sells remnants of Germany’s communist past to tourists.
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/ 20 November 2009
About 200 football matches in nine European countries are implicated in a new match-fixing scandal, German prosecutors said on Friday.
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/ 18 November 2009
The German government has sent a written protest to Zimbabwe over an alleged attack by Zimbabwean soldiers on a German priest last weekend.
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/ 18 November 2009
A German orchestra announced plans on Tuesday to play a concert in a brothel in an effort to bring classical music "to where people are".
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/ 16 November 2009
Mercedes on Monday bought a controlling stake in Formula One world champions Brawn GP in a move which is likely to see Jenson Button join McLaren.
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/ 11 November 2009
Germany was in shock on Wednesday after football star Robert Enke, who was set to represent his country at the 2010 World Cup, committed suicide.
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/ 11 November 2009
French and German leaders stood side by side in Paris to honour the fallen of World War I on Wednesday.
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/ 9 November 2009
The united Germany remains marred by division 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.
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/ 8 November 2009
A new study shows that about €1,3-trillion has been transferred from the west to rebuild the east, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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/ 6 November 2009
Interview with Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Africa, Dieter W Haller.
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/ 6 November 2009
The Goethe-Institut approached the department of architecture at UJ with an invitation to participate in the Cracking Walls project.
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/ 6 November 2009
The new South Africa owes a debt of gratitude to all those who sang the songs and manned the barricades 20 years ago, writes Mandla Langa.
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/ 6 November 2009
Torsten Schulz recalls the trip he
made from East Germany into the West.
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/ 6 November 2009
Twenty years after the Berlin Wall tumbled in a peaceful revolution, world leaders will on Monday meet in a transformed Germany.
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/ 6 November 2009
Astronomers at SA’s space telescope are forced to send findings by road, while politicians call on Telkom to resolve the issue, reports David Smith.
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/ 6 November 2009
The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to provide 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050 or earlier using power lines stretching across the desert.
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/ 4 November 2009
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, much of the eastern economy has cast off the shackles of its Communist past.