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The First Motorcycle was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart) in 1885. It was essentially a motorised bicycle, although the inventors called their invention the Reitwagen ("riding car"). It was...

Architect Jacob Tigges has drawn up plans for a mountain... To be built on the site of the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin Germany, the plans call for a 1,000 meter (3300 foot) mountain (called "The Berg") which could be...

STOCKHOLM – Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary...

In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, professor of physics the University of Wurburg in Germany, was doing experiments with electrical discharges in evacuated glass tubes. Late in 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen was alone at night doing his experiments, this time in the...

EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 8:02AM EDT G oogle Inc. Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cellphones to possibly e-book devices. It's the first foray into charging...

Opel represented new Astra only as 5-doors hatchback. However German company plans to build new models family on the Astra platform. And the question is not only about production of 3-doors hatchback and estate car. Opel is going to build...

Green500 list, which provides a global ranking of energy-efficient supercomputers. For a long time, in the world of supercomputers, performance was solely associated with speed. This notion led to the development of computers that use enormous amounts of energy.

The case has become an instant online cause celebre – with one lawyer saying that the integrity of history itself is at stake – because it ranges the US's First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, against German privacy and...

Just launched globally, the Google Dashboard provides an easy interface with a range of existing privacy controls intended to help users manage their interactions with the search giant's burgeoning range of email, social networking and voice products. "This is absolutely...