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Following an examination by his doctor, Dr. Tzvi Herman Berkovitch, he was diagnosed with a viral infection and a low fever. Dr. Berkovitch recommended that the prime minister rest at home. In conjunction with the office of German Chancellor Angela...

In what has been a week of headaches for Merkel, her own colleagues from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are leading the brinkmanship amid fears their states� budgets will be blown out by the drop in tax revenue. The...

K�hler kills controversial internet child pornography law Published: 28 Nov 09 17:01 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091128-23585.html President Horst K�hler has hammered another nail in the coffin of the former government�s controversial law to block child pornography...

Flexing his muscle on the broadcaster�s board, Roland Koch, the CDU Premier of the state of Hesse, blocked ZDF director-general Markus Sch�chter�s push to extend Brender�s contract for another five years. Brender is now expected to end his 10-year tenure...

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...

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...

In an embarrassing change of course, the budget airline easyJet has pulped almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of a monumental row over its use of a Holocaust memorial as a location for a fashion shoot. The airline...

Last updated on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 7:37PM EST A report this year by the Canadian Council on Learning concluded that homework is effective – but only if it's assigned properly. More isn't necessarily better, and children in elementary school...