A German medical team said on Friday it had performed what it called the world’s first transplant of two full arms.
For the man who has brought rock-star charisma to politics, Thursday saw the campaign rally as a gathering of peace, love and loathing of George Bush.
Germany’s prestigious Bayreuth Festival, the world’s most famous summer music festival, is set to enter the 21st century with its first-ever webcast.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling German Grand Prix on Sunday to forge four points clear of Felipe Massa at the top of the championship.
As the last generation of Germany’s Holocaust survivors enters the twilight years, many are losing the strength to suppress horrific memories.
Obamania is all the rage ahead of next week’s visit to Berlin, Paris and London by a man described in newspapers as a ”John Kennedy of our time”.
Lewis Hamilton can crack Formula One’s three-way deadlock in Germany this weekend by winning McLaren’s second home grand prix in as many races.
German police have arrested Rwandan Callixte Mbarushimana, suspected of involvement in the killing of 32 fellow UN staff during the 1994 genocide.
Soaring oil prices have led to such a boom for solar power that the industry could operate without subsidies in just a few years’ time, according to i
A desperate German woman called the police to rescue her after a friend visiting her talked for 30 hours straight, authorities said Tuesday.
”Adolf Hitler has left us — after a very short visit,” concluded Die Welt am Sonntag after an attack on a wax figure of the Nazi leader.
He sits hunched over his desk, one leg hooked under his chair, gazing with the concern of a businessman who has realised the books are looking bad.
It has long been considered the most troublesome character in the German alphabet. But champions of the Eszett were celebrating its red-letter day.
German prosecutors have found no evidence linking the country’s industrial giant ThyssenKrupp to corruption in South Africa’s arms deal.
Plans to include an Adolf Hitler figure in the new Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum are being condemned by critics, who say displaying the dictator is tasteless and could attract neo-Nazis. Madame Tussauds argues Hitler is part of German history and deserves a place in the exhibition near the Brandenburg Gate.
When some multinational companies dump chemicals into the sea, they call it ”ocean fertilisation”. This practice is near the top of the agenda at the United Nations conference on biological diversity in Bonn that ends on Friday. Practically all developing countries want the conference to approve a moratorium on ocean fertilisation.
Further outbreaks of violence against foreigners in South Africa could lead Fifa to move the 2010 World Cup elsewhere, the United Nations adviser on sport said on Thursday. Willi Lemke said if the scenes repeat themselves, ”Fifa will rethink its decision in favour of South Africa and, if necessary, pull the plug.”
Roger Federer expects Rafael Nadal to wilt under the physical burden of defending his French Open title when the world’s top two players continue their rivalry at Roland Garros next week. Federer slumped to his eighth dispiriting defeat on clay to the Spaniard in the Hamburg Masters final on Sunday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for an international peacekeeping force to be deployed in Zimbabwe to prevent any violence during a presidential run-off ballot next month. Zimbabwe is due to hold the delayed second-round ballot on June 27, when the opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe.
The Dalai Lama accused China of ”suppression” and demanded autonomy for Tibet as he arrived Thursday in Germany to start a Western tour ahead of the Beijing Olympics. ”The Chinese political authorities’ reaction, as before, was suppression. So it is very sad,” he said of China’s military crackdown.
The German government on Monday brushed off a verbal attack from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in which the leftist leader said Chancellor Angela Merkel was a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. Merkel sets off for her first trip to Latin America on Tuesday.
UBS, the Swiss bank that has been Europe’s biggest casualty of the credit crunch, is to axe 5Â 500 jobs. Of those 2Â 600 face compulsory redundancy, mainly in its stricken investment banking arms in London and New York, as it struggles to regain its reputation and investor confidence.
In the latest case of apparent infanticide to shock Germany, police said on Monday that they found three dead babies in a freezer and arrested a woman believed to be the children’s mother. Police said the woman’s grown-up son and daughter discovered the tiny corpses on Saturday evening when they were looking for something to eat when their parents were out.
The head of Germany’s Social Democrats, who has ambitions to be his country’s next leader, is thinking about donating his beard to charity, but is not quite sure. Kurt Beck, who has a strong claim to lead the SPD into next year’s national election, said he might shave off his beard to raise €1-million for charity.
A former German army officer involved in two failed plots to assassinate Hitler, but who remained undetected until the end of World War II, has died aged 90, his family said on May 2. Philipp von Boeselager was one of eight officers who planned to shoot Hitler and SS head Heinrich Himmler in March 1943.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday Africa must send a mission to Zimbabwe to end a delay in issuing election results, which he called unacceptable. Zuma has made several forthright comments on the election delay, distancing himself from South African President Thabo Mbeki, the regional mediator.
You might think they belong in the trash, but what according to the <i>Guinness World Records</i> is the world’s largest collection of used crisp packets went on show in a German museum this week. The exhibit at the Hamaland museum in Vreden, north-west Germany, showcases the 2 000-bag collection of a local resident.
A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected Nasa’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with the Earth, a German newspaper reported on Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt calculated that there is a one-in-450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth.
The view from Hans-Joachim Sommer’s office window is as wintry as you can get on a spring morning: a few stunted fir trees, a wire fence and the blank grey of a Baltic sky. His conversation is as bleak. ”The teenagers here are all highly criminal,” said the 47-year-old former sports teacher. ”Their problems are very complex.”
A German orchestra has dropped a composition from its programme after its members claimed the music was so loud that it gave them ear problems and headaches. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR) said it had little choice but to drop the world premiere of Swedish-Israeli composer Dror Feiler’s Halat Hisar (State of Siege).
Despite sagging global growth, soaring oil prices and the threat of renewed turmoil hanging over share markets, Europe appears to have managed so far to weather the storm unleashed by the upheaval in the United States housing market and fears of a major world economic slump.
A vicar in Germany who had the novel idea of helping parishioners escape the stresses and strains of daily life by letting them lie in an open grave was upset when intrusive journalists spoiled the atmosphere. ”I meant it as a meditative exercise,” said pastor Thorsten Nolting.