A huge blue cockerel descended upon London's Trafalgar Square on Thursday, but the artwork has ruffled feathers by putting the symbol of France in a site marking a famous British victory over Napoleon.Standing 4.7 metres (15.5 feet) tall and coloured a vivid ultramarine, the fibreglass rooster was sculpted by German artist Katharina Fritsch and will watch over the famous square for 18 ...
Merkels chief of staff testifies to German Parliament committee in NSA surveillance flap
Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff has testified to a parliamentary committee about alleged surveillance by the U.S. National Surveillance Agency, which has become a campaign issue ahead of Germany's September elections. Lawmakers from the center-left opposition said Thursday's meeting of the Parliamentary Control Body - a closed-doors, cross-party committee that supervises ...
Germany will have a fever by Saturday
Germany is hurtling towards the hottest point of the year this weekend, national weather service the DWD said on Thursday. With highs of nearly 40C, experts are warning everyone to take ...
The blue blooded Bavarian Duke
All eyes were on the British royals this week, while in Bavaria a direct descendant of Stuart King Charles I turned 80 in relative privacy. Yet our German of the week Franz Herzog von Bayern's blood runs as blue as little Prince ...
Thomas Lurz Leads Germany to Team 5K Victory
event coverage page .By Steven Munatones, Swimming World correspondent, Open Water SourceBARCELONA, Spain, July 25. THOMAS Lurz has a tremendous schedule at the 2013 FINA World Championships - by far the longest and most difficult of any athlete at the championships. And he is making the most of his opportunities. With a silver in the 5 km and a bronze in the 10 km two days later, the German ...
Pep Guardiola on an emotional game between Bayern Munich and Barcelona ? video
Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola talks about his emotions after facing his former club in a friendly at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday. Bayern Munich fielded a stronger team and won the game 2-0. Guardiola says he experimented with some of Bayern's styles of play in the ...
Thomas Lurz leads Germany to open-water gold at swim worlds
German gold medallists Thomas Lurz, left, Isabelle Franziska Harle, centre, and Christian Martin Reichert pose with their medals on the podium during the award ceremony of the men's 5-kilometre open water team swimming event in the FINA World Championships on Thursday in Barcelona. (Josep Lago/AFP/Getty ...
European companies should stop sending data to the US German privacy officials say
The European Commission should suspend agreements that allow European companies to transfer personal data of European citizens to the U.S., the German Conference of Data Protection Commissioners has urged.The Commission, meanwhile, is working on an assessment of the agreements that it will present before the end of the year.Due to the mass surveillance of communications by the U.S. National ...
Germanys KfW lends $46 mln for Macedonian wind hydro projects
SKOPJE, July 25 | Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:07am EDT SKOPJE, July 25 (Reuters) - German state-owned KfW Bank made a 35 million euro ($46.3 million) loan on Thursday to Macedonia's power utility ELEM for a wind farm and an upgrade of a hydro-power plant. Macedonia, which is looking to join the European Union, aims to meet the bloc's renewable energy targets by 2020 and it is working ...
Commerzbank sells fund management unit to BNP
Germany's second-biggest bank, Commerzbank, is to sell its Depotbank investment unit managing funds worth 93 billion euros to BNP Paribas, it said on Thursday.Commerzbank declined to give the value of the deal for the unit which managed assets worth the equivalent of $122 billion in AprilThe subsidiary offers services for investment companies and funds such as settling securities ...
UN urges Czechs to shut pig farm on former Nazi camp
The Czech Republic should remove a pig farm located on the site of a concentration camp where Roma were held and killed during World War II, a United Nations rights watchdog said Thursday.The UN Human Rights Committee said the issue was a litmus test of the Czech Republic's treatment of its marginalised Roma minority and that the country should "redouble its efforts".The committee ...
NSA Spying Rankles Privacy-Loving Germans
Yes We Scan ." And since then, things have gone from bad to worse -- especially given revelations that Germany's intelligence services have been working in close cooperation with their American counterparts throughout the NSA's vast spying system. Amid a deepening scandal, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has watched the growing furor with dismay over the past ...
Merkel takes long break signaling German election is a snooze
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) election campaign rally in Heringsdorf at the Baltic sea July 22, ...
Hannover rule out Diouf sale
Hannover sporting director Dirk Dufner has insisted that the club will not be selling striker Mame Biram Diouf this transfer window. Diouf, who joined Hannover from Manchester United in 2012, has been linked with a move away from the AWD-Arena, with his contract set to expire in June 2014. Dufner revealed over the weekend that Stoke City have made an offer to the 25-year-old, with the Bundesliga ...
Broad-Minded London Mayor Spurs Berlin Public Sex Debate
London Mayor Boris Johnson gave Berlin high praise in a recent column, hailing the city's means-tested fines for public sex. A local official now says that lower penalties for welfare recipients "divides ...
Pizza with a Neo-Nazi Witness Describes Friendly Neighbor
A former neighbor of the main defendant in the trial of Germany's murderous neo-Nazi terrorist cell has described her as a friendly woman who would stop by for drinks and even once brought a pizza. The witness also admitted to having a Hitler ...
Germanys Siemens issues 2014 profit warning
German engineering giant Siemens said on Thursday that it no longer expected to reach a profit margin of at least 12 percent by the 2014 business year.The company in a statement cited "lower market expectations" for the profit warning but insisted that its cost-cutting measures were largely on track.The company is due to report its third-quarter results next Thursday.In May, it trimmed ...
UPDATE 2-German business morale rises for 3rd month points to recovery
BERLIN, July 25 (Reuters) - German business morale edged up for a third straight month in July in a sign Europe's largest economy is picking up steam and should post modest growth in this election year, although the euro zone's travails still weigh on the ...
Germanys Siemens warns on profit margin
BERLIN (AP) German-based industrial conglomerate Siemens AG is warning on its future profitability, saying that doesn't expect to achieve its targeted profit margin for next year because of economic weakness. Siemens said Thursday that it no longer expects to hit a profit margin of at least 12 percent by the 2014 fiscal year, which starts in October. It said the change is "mainly due to lower ...
Minister of Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs receives the German Ambassador to the Kingdom
Manama: July 25 -- (BNA)-- The Minister of Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs, H.E. Dr. Jum'a bin Ahmed Al-Ka'bi, received in his office at the Ministry premises today the Ambassador of the friendly Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom, Ambassadress Ms. Sabine Taufmann. During the meeting, the Minister welcomed the German Ambassadress, wishing her all success in her ...
BASF books quarterly profit fall on flagging chemicals
The world's largest chemicals company, Germany's BASF, announced on Thursday a fall in net profit in the second quarter but held to its targets.It warned that in a volatile global environment the rest of the year would be more difficult than expected, but maintained its forecast of annual results.BASF makes a wide variety of chemicals for plastics, paints, textiles and drugs as well as ...
German Lurz wins another open water gold at worlds
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Longtime open-water star Thomas Lurz has added another world championship to his stellar career, leading Germany to victory in the 5-kilometer team event. Lurz and teammates Christian Reichert and Isabelle Harle completed two laps around the Barcelona harbor course in 52 minutes, 54.9 seconds. They went out fourth in the staggered start but passed all three teams that began ...
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