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CNN said Jung's resignation follows that of the German army's chief of staff, Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, who left his post amid allegations of a cover-up for a deadly air strike in Afghanistan's Kunduz Province. Germany's Bild newspaper reported this week...

Thirteen new World Heritage sites have been declared by UNESCO. Out of 200 countries in the World, only 148 find a place in the list. Last year 28 new sites were added to the list and this year another 13....

The German commander an a senior German defense minister are forced to resign because the report about the deadly strike which has killed dozen Afghanistan civilians On September 4. According to Afghanistan government the air raid has killed 69 Taliban...

German Sutil will be entering his fourth season with the team in F1. And Italian Liuzzi's performances after being promoted to the race team from test driver for the last five races of last year have earned another chance. Team...

Hans-Helmut Kotz, a Bundesbank board member, called on German banks to use the “room to manoeuvre” created by public-policy responses and a return to economic growth to “put some fat on the ribs” of their capital bases. The 17 largest...

German publishing giant Axel Springer has backed out of a deal to buy a 29% stake in Turkish group Dogan Yayin due to an ongoing tax dispute between the media company and the Turkish government over a potentially crippling $3.3...

Politicians are now discussing the possibility of pushing the changes back to 2011. Merkel�s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their junior coalition partners the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) want to adopt a fiscal package worth �8.5 billion including tax cuts...

The director general of the BBC yesterday indicated that there would be a reduction in the scale of its popular website, and possibly the closure of some of its digital channels or radio stations, following claims from politicians and rivals...

John Demjanjuk suffers from bouts of mental absence and will enter court in a wheelchair on Monday to fight charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, the 89-year-old's lawyer said. His victims' families insist he must face...

The Lausanne-based CAS upheld a July 1 decision by the International Skating Union (ISU), which banned the 37-year-old for two years after tests showed she had an abnormal count of reticulocytes, or early-stage red blood cells...Pechstein maintains that she never...