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/ 4 November 2009
General Motors has pulled out of the sale of its European car division, provoking anger in Germany on Wednesday and stunning the global car industry.
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/ 3 November 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev said on Tuesday that he was proud of his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.
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/ 22 October 2009
Germany’s 2010 stars were reportedly warned on Wednesday to expect to wear bulletproof vests if they venture away from the team hotel in SA.
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/ 15 October 2009
The Frankfurt Book Fair got a buzz on Thursday from news that rights to Nelson Mandela’s work Conversation with Myself were on the market.
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/ 13 October 2009
Germany coach Joachim Loew says his ambition is to win the World Cup, only he isn’t promising his team will take the title in South Africa next year.
Footballing superpowers Italy and Germany can seal their places at the 2010 World Cup on Saturday as qualifying for South Africa enters the home strai
South Africa is being assisted in its endeavours to kick-start its renewable energy initiative.
Germany said on Tuesday that it saw a "moral hazard" in raising the resources of the International Monetary Fund.
The world must address climate change with or without the US, writes David Adam
A job centre in northern Germany has come up with a novel way to match unemployed people with potential employers: job speed dating.
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/ 28 September 2009
German officials were investigating on Monday how accurate results of the country’s election appeared on Twitter before polling stations closed.
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/ 28 September 2009
Angela Merkel has won a second term as chancellor, but the politician hailed as the big winner is the leader of the Free Democrats, Guido Westerwelle.
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/ 25 September 2009
Barring a huge election day surprise on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to win a second term at the helm of Europe’s top economy.
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/ 23 September 2009
David Haye has vowed to knock out Nikolai Valuev when the pair meet on November 7 — even if he is struggling to find sparring partners tall enough.
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/ 23 September 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on track to win a second term, the last polls released before Sunday’s election indicated.
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/ 14 September 2009
Angela Merkel was on Monday still on track to win re-election in two weeks’ time after her rival failed to land a knock-out blow in a TV debate.
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/ 10 September 2009
The board of General Motors has decided to sell its European arm Opel to Canadian car parts group Magna, sources said on Thursday.
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/ 8 September 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she ”deeply regrets” any innocent victims in Afghanistan.
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/ 7 September 2009
Close-to-home holidays have proliferated in the financial crisis, but now the travel industry is gearing to draw another crowd.
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/ 6 September 2009
Mario Gomez and Mesut Oezil each scored to give Germany a 2-0 victory over World Cup host South Africa in a friendly match on Saturday.
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/ 3 September 2009
Bafana Bafana must take the game to Germany when they face the three-times World champions in a friendly international on Saturday.
Angela Merkel’s conservatives licked their wounds on Monday after polls raised doubts about their coalition’s chances of winning a looming election.
South African teenager Caster Semenya won the women’s world 800m title with a crushing performance on Wednesday.
ASA has denied media reports that Caster Semenya was in danger of not competing in the women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships.
Olympic 200m champion Usain Bolt got his bid to claim a world sprint double off to a perfect start by cruising through his heat in Berlin on Tuesday.
The death by starvation of a three-year-old girl in Germany has sparked soul-searching on how to combat rising child neglect in the country.
Germany beat Azerbaijan 2-0 to move ahead in its World Cup qualifying group on Wednesday, while France laboured to a 1-0 win over the Faroe Islands.
The Desertec project aims to build solar power plants in several locations in North Africa.
A German man who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Düsseldorf said.
At the UN Climate Change Convention talks held in Bonn recently 192 countries met to discuss long-term cooperative action to address climate change.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, refers to 2009 as “the year of climate change”.
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Peter Bradshaw reviews The Baader Meinhof Complex about West Germany’s Red Army Faction led by Andreas Baader.