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  • Heidi Klum spares weekends for kids

    German supermodel Heidi Klum always keeps her weekends free for her children. The 39-year-old raises kids Leni, nine, Henry, seven, Johan, six and Lou, three, with former husband Seal. Despite her busy schedule, she tries to be spend quality time with them whenever possible. "I keep weekends open and wrap my workday at a reasonable hour so I'm home for dinner and bedtime stories," ...

  • Some fear inflation if small euro coins cut

    European Union proposals to eliminate one and two cent euro coins is annoying some Germans, including a few at the Bundesbank, while others think an EU idea to introduce one and two-euro notes is a good ...

  • Wagner descendant slams composer

    "I'm not out to make people feel guilty. It's not my wish to have Richard Wagner banned. I'm just not one of the adulators, the incense-burners," Gottfried Wagner told AFP in an interview. There is no mistaking who Gottfried is descended from. The resemblance is striking. He has: the same prominent nose and high forehead that have marked out most of Wagner's ...

  • Did Merkels politics hurt Germany at Eurovision

    Eurovision Song Contest favourite Denmark won the competition on Saturday night, while Germany plunged to 21st ...

  • Bundesliga Schalke joy Dusseldorf down

    Highlights: SC Freiburg 1-2 Schalke 04 Schalke booked a place in the Champions League qualifiers next season by winning away at Freiburg, but the real drama came at the other end of the table as Fortuna Dusseldorf were relegated after dropping into the bottom two with just eight minutes of the season to ...

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The Limey

Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to put your finger on. He exploded onto the scene in 1989 with the indie groundbreaker "sex, lies, and videotape," and his career since then has been a journey of stylistic experimentation across numerous genres. In 1998, he made a bold move toward the mainstream with the uniformly excellent "Out of Sight," in which he energized what could have been a routine ... ...

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  • Germany okays bank reform to protect taxpayers

    Germany has approved new measures to rein in high-risk financial business of banks and to decouple them from retail banking as part of a comprehensive reform to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis five years ago and to minimise the costs for taxpayers if banks were to be bailed out in the ...

  • New Berlin crashes leave motorcyclist dead teen cyclist in critical condition

    Separate accidents in New Berlin left a 22-year-old man dead and a 15-year-old girl in critical condition. Dustin Hanson of Big Bend died Saturday of injuries sustained in a traffic accident Friday at the intersection of Moorland Road and Coffee Road. Hanson was operating a motorcycle going southbound on Moorland Road when it collided with an automobile turning westbound onto Coffee Road, ...

  • France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously Bundesbank head

    France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on ...

  • Im not one of his adulators Wagners great-grandson

    As the musical world lavishly celebrates Richard Wagner's bicentenary, the composer's great-grandson insists he is no spoilsport by denouncing the German master as a narcissist, woman-hater and an anti-Semite. "I'm not out to make people feel guilty. It's not my wish to have Richard Wagner banned. I'm just not one of the adulators, the incense-burners," ...

  • German FM visits Algeria to boost ties

    German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that his visit to Algeria aims at deepening the bilateral relations both on the political and economic levels between Algiers and ...

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