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Revealing new figures on German child poverty
New statistics from the Federal Labour Office (BA) and a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation allegedly show a positive trend in regard to poverty among German children. In truth, the statistics tell...


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German men jailed for UK terror offences
A British judge has jailed two German men after they pleaded guilty to terror charges.Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 24, were arrested on July 15 in the English port town of Dover.The two...
Robust Germany faces rising 'burnout' problem
Germany, holding up better than its eurozone partners in the current economic crisis, is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which is supposedly costing its economy...
Industrial orders rise amid eurozone gloom
Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, saw the release of further favourable economic data on Monday with industrial orders in December partly reversing steep falls seen the previous...
Video: Morgan Freeman gets German film honours
Morgan Freeman picked up a lifetime achievement award Saturday at Germany's Golden Camera ceremony in Berlin. His most recent role was that of former South African president Nelson Mandela in...
French, German Leaders Warn Greece To Stick To Commitments
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have piled fresh pressure on debt-crippled Greece, urging the country's leaders to fulfill their obligations by quickly...
The World from Berlin: 'Moscow and Beijing Abased Syrians, Snubbed West'
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Latin American Cinema in Berlin
Berlin, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) After winning the 2009 Golden Bear Award, Peruvian moviemaker Claudia Llosa will come back on Friday to the Berlin International Film Festival with the short film...
2 German men jailed for British terror offenses
LONDON -- A British judge has jailed two German men after they pleaded guilty to terror charges.Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 24, were arrested on July 15 in the English port town of...
Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers
German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper...
Germans jailed for terror offences
Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 24, were arrested on 15 July last year and material was seized from a hard drive and laptop computer.They pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Thursday to having...
Germany Maps Out Financing Plan for Renewable Energies
renewable energy in the electricity mix. And the federal KfW bank group has introduced a new plan to further accelerate this shift to renewables, with increases in multimillion euro business loans...
Germany, France Pressure Greece to Finish Debt Deals
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France, Germany want account for Greek debt funds
(02-06) 05:32 PST PARIS, France (AP) -- France and Germany called Monday for the creation of a special account to ensure that billions of euros in bailout money for Greece goes directly to paying...
Warner Bros. Germany Signs Four-Picture Deal With Matthias Schweighofer
Fox to Produce Matthias Schweighofer's New Comedy Schweighofer will direct and star in all four productions Pantheon will co-produce with Warner under the deal. Schweighofer runs his...
Germans jailed for terror offence
Two German nationals have been jailed by a judge at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to possessing documents useful to terrorism. Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, who are both converts...
2 German Men Jailed for British Terror Offenses
A British judge has jailed two German men after they pleaded guilty to terror charges. Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 24, were arrested on July 15 in the English port town of Dover. The...
Record freeze expected to worsen
Germany shivered through record low temperatures of nearly -29 degrees Celsius overnight, but the German Weather Service has forecast an even deeper freeze ahead of snow showers...
Car thieves discover dead baby
Four young car thieves in the western German state of Saarland notified the police on Sunday night after they stumbled on the corpse of a small baby in the boot of a car they were breaking...
German industrial orders buoyed by global demand
BERLIN -- The German government says strong demand from outside the eurozone helped the country's industrial orders rise a stronger-than-expected 1.7 percent in December.The Economy Ministry...
Google Chrome most secure browser, says German government
Google Chrome has been recommended to Windows 7 users by Germany's cybersecurity agency because of the browser's sandbox and auto-update features. In a security best practices guideline,...
Motorola Mobility Wins Second German Ruling Against Apple
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. won a German patent ruling over Apple Inc.’s iCloud service that may allow the company to block sales of devices including iPhone and iPad...
EXTEDO Hosting EURS Experts Forum 2012 in Germany
EXTEDO , a key eRegulatory Affairs solutions provider for life sciences firms, today announced it will be hosting the EURS Experts Forum 2012 in Munich, Germany, on February 7-8, 2012. The EURS...
Germany hunts out deer calling champion
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hunting enthusiasts grunted, bawled and bellowed in the battle to be named Germany's champion deer caller. The 18 men and one woman used sea shells, ox horns and hollow...
Czechs beat Germany 4-1 to advance to Fed Cup semifinals
Sabine Lisicki and send defending champion Czech Republic into the semifinals of the Fed Cup after taking an insurmountable lead in the first round on...
Sarkozy, Merkel: Greece must honour undertakings
Eurozone power couple France and Germany urged Greek leaders on Monday to "live up to their responsibilities" by voting in favour of an unpopular austerity package designed to slash its...
Paris, Berlin won't accept blocking of Syria action: Sarkozy
France and Germany will not accept the "blocking" of international action on Syria, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday, after Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution on the...
German official industrial orders climb 1.7% in December
Industrial orders in Germany rose in December, partly reversing the sharp fall seen the previous month, on the back of a rebound in orders from outside the eurozone, new data showed on Monday. The...
Germany: Factory Orders register an upturn in December
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - German Factory Orders increased 1.7% in December, following a 4.9% drop the previous month, according to the Deutsche Bundesbank official report. The result is higher than...
Towers Perrin pushes forward in Munich
Financial consultant Towers Perrin has built upon its pension related investment consulting business by forming a new European Investment Consulting Group based in Munich, Germany. Local...
Deutsche Bank facing securities action – EXCLUSIVE
As pressure mounts to patch up the damage caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it has emerged that a securities class action has been brought against European firm Deutsche Bank. Regarding...
German institutional market opens up
The German institutional market is opening up to non-German players as investors acknowledge that there is excellent investment expertise outside of Germany, despite the fact that German banks and...
Fidelity International Real Estate Business expands into Germany
Fidelity International’s Real Estate Business is planning to expand into the Continental European market with the opening of a dedicated Fidelity Real Estate Business office in Munich. The...
Mercer penetrates German market
IMercer has boosted its presence in the German pensions space with the acquisition of local player Hofer Vorsorge-Management, one of Germany’s leading actuarial and retirement consulting...
G-REITs open up German market
The German Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is finally on the market, following the German President Horst Kohler’s signing of the G-REIT law at the end of May. The new law –...
Friends Provident targets Germany
UK life and pensions provider Friends Provident has entered the German market as part of a long-term development of business in continental Europe. Aiming to bring innovation and flexibility to...