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German investigators said on Friday they suspected that homemade bombs found on two trains last month were a failed terror attack. It was first thought that the devices packed into cases in trains in the western cities of Dortmund and Koblenz on July 31 were a blackmail attempt, but analysis of the contents has revealed a possible link to Lebanon.

A man in Germany might have escaped with murdering his wife had it not been for a telemarketer’s call, police said on Tuesday. The husband had just stabbed his wife when the phone rang and she grabbed the phone and stammered, ”Please help me, my husband’s killing me,” before he wrenched the receiver out of her hand.

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.