An 18-year-old German man has confessed to creating the internet Sasser worm which infected millions of computers worldwide last week, police said on Saturday. The teenager, whom police have not identified by name, was arrested on Friday after a raid on his house in Rotenburg, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, which turned up incriminating evidence.
Violinists from Bonn’s Beethoven Orchestra have decided not to go ahead with their groundbreaking legal action in which they were suing for higher wages because they felt they played more than their colleagues in the woodwind and brass sections.
For the Maya of Central America, cocoa was the drink of the gods, and for years after it was introduced to Europe it was the preserve of the aristocracy. More recently it has been seen as a children’s drink, but now it is making a comeback among gourmets and top chefs, who are rediscovering drinking chocolate.
DuffyDuc has a problem with his Rover 75 with the heating system switching itself on as it pleases. The dealer couldn’t find the fault until DuffyDuc consults a chat room on the Internet. No longer can a dealer claim that the problem is completely untypical and has ”never happened before” therefore not falling under the guarantee.
Afghanistan and its six closest neighbours inked a regional cooperation accord on Thursday to step up the fight against narcotics by creating a ”security belt” around the country. The accord was agreed in Berlin at an international conference designed to shore up the country’s rebuilding and reformation process.
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/ 16 February 2004
Scientists in Germany on Monday launched the country’s first test of an HIV vaccine, a yearlong programme that will involve up to 50 volunteers and is backed by the New York-based International Aids Vaccine Initiative. An estimated 30 HIV vaccine tests are already under way worldwide.
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/ 2 February 2004
Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens, whose touring show of flayed human bodies has shocked Germany, has offered a large sum to giant Alexander Sizonenko, the world’s biggest man, a newspaper reported on Monday. The former Russian basketball player is 2,48m tall and weighs 200kg.
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/ 23 January 2004
The European orbiter <i>Mars Express</i> has detected frozen water at Mars’s south pole, mission officials said in Germany on Friday. Water, in its liquid form, is one of the ingredients for nurturing and sustaining life, and Mars is considered to be the best bet for this outside Earth.
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An FBI agent has testified that the key plotters behind the September 11 2001 attacks had a test run criss-crossing the United States a few days before the suicide plane bombings. The agent testified at the trial in Germany of a Moroccan charged with helping the plotters.
Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, is hoping the new fifth version of its best-selling Golf model, unveiled on Monday, will steer the group back into the fast lane of the world’s car makers.
The German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said Friday it planned to launch its rival drug to Pfizer’s anti-impotence treatment Viagra in the United States in the second half of this year, following favourable comments about the drug by the US health authorities.
Despite a drop in both exports and imports, South Africa remained by far Germany’s top trade partner on the entire African continent in 2002, figures reported on Tuesday showed.
Twelve wounded US soldiers were flown to Germany on Monday for treatment at a military hospital, including three seriously injured believed to be among the casualties of a weekend incident at the 101st Airborne Division’s command center in Kuwait, military officials said.
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Germany’s knife-edge general election campaign took an extraordinary new turn this week when the conservative candidate, Edmund Stoiber, pledged himself to the deportation of 4 000 alleged Islamist militants if he is voted in as chancellor on Sunday.
A shame-faced surgeon faced manslaughter charges before a court in Germany on Tuesday for removing a healthy lung instead of a cancer-riddled one from a patient who later died as a result of the blunder.
A Russian charter jet filled with youngsters on a flight to Spain collided with a two-pilot cargo plane over southern Germany, scattering flaming wreckage over a wide area, officials and a travel agent said. No one aboard was believed to have survived.