Snared by the global economic slump, the German economy contracted sharply last year, suggesting a disastrous 2009 for Europe’s industrial powerhouse.
A top official has been transferred to France in connection with the death of Rwanda’s former president
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…
German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm. Travel agency…
The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Friday it would seek to drain a further €150-billion from Eurozone money markets through a new offer aimed at absorbing excess liquidity.…
The euro soared to another record high against the sagging dollar on Wednesday, climbing above ,47 for the first time, while the British pound reached ,10. The 13-nation euro hit…
The euro rose to a new all-time high against the dollar on Monday after a weekend meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers ended without a clear statement of concern about…
The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual exhibition — the unofficial ”most stolen book”…
Fearing that it will lose out financially, much of the book industry is resisting internet pioneers’ vision of putting the world’s entire store of published information online.…
The euro resumed its record-setting run against the dollar on Tuesday, climbing to ,4153 after a pair of economic reports painted a dismal picture for United States consumers and…
When Germany’s women played their first international soccer game 25 years ago, school kids were bussed in to fill the stands and the public was at best bemused by the sight.…
Sony says it will start selling a combined television tuner and personal video recorder that lets users of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console capture live television that can be…
For almost two days, millions of customers around the world who depend on the popular online phone service Skype were stymied as they tried to make or receive calls or send…
Central banks in Europe and Japan pumped out tens of billions more dollars on Monday to help commercial banks hit by the United States home-loan sector crisis, as shares bounced…
This might well be the beginning of the end for the hard drive: in mid-May, Dell became the first manufacturer to market a laptop using flash memory instead of a hard drive.…
Private equity firm Cerberus will buy the majority of DaimlerChrysler’s struggling Chrysler Group for ,4-billion, a fraction of the -billion deal that created the transatlantic…
Porsche, the German maker of luxury sports cars, has launched an official bid to acquire Volkswagen, Europe’s largest auto manufacturer. Stuttgart-based Porsche announced in late…
German-United States auto giant DaimlerChrysler said on Tuesday it had reached an out-of-court settlement with insurers over a legal squabble surrounding some comments by the…
The anti-corruption department at German engineering giant Siemens tried to cover up evidence of bribery accounts several years ago, the <i>Sueddeutsche Zeitung</i> newspaper…
New rules forced air travellers to pack perfume, toothpaste and other liquids into small plastic bags in their hand luggage before going through security checkpoints at Europe’s…
