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Growth taking stronger hold in eurozone
BRUSSELS - There is rising expectations that recovery is taking hold in the eurozone, with 0.3percent GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2013 as against only 0.1 percent in the previous ...
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Chinese Black Coal Thin Ice wins Golden Bear award at Berlin International Film Festival
The Chinese film 'Bai Ri Yan Huo' (Black Coal, Thin Ice) won the Golden Bear for best picture at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. American Richard Linklater won the Best Director ...
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Investigators reveal camera on comatose Schumachers ski helmet may have caused it to break
Investigators working on the case of comatose Formula One legend Michael Schumacher have reportedly revealed that the German's ski helmet might have broken because it was weakened by the camera ...
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Austrian Skier Swedish Relay Team Win Olympic Golds
Austrian skier Anna Fenninger has won the first of seven gold medals to be awarded in Saturday's competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Fenninger took top prize in the women's ...
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Nazi scientists planned on using malaria-infected mosquitoes as weapons during WW2
A researcher has claimed that German scientists at Dachau concentration camp looked into the possible use of malaria-infected mosquitoes as weapons during World War Two. Dr Klaus Reinhardt of ...
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Austrian Skier Wins Saturdays First Olympic Gold
Austrian skier Anna Fenninger has won the first of seven gold medals to be awarded in Saturday's competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Fenninger took top prize in the women's ...
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Hamburg sack coach Bert van Marwijk
Hamburg have sacked coach Bert van Marwijk and assistant Roel Coumans with immediate effect, the German club said in an official statement. After eight defeats in a row and a free fall into the ...
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Chinese thriller wins best film and best actor prizes at Berlin festival
Liao Fan and Diao Yinan, the star and director of Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice, which won best film and best actor at the Berlin film festival on Saturday. Photograph: Thomas ...
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Toronto child-porn investigation leads to major political scandal in Germany
A child-pornography investigation that began in Toronto is behind a major political scandal in Germany, forcing the resignation of two prominent federal politicians, including a senior cabinet ...
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Backgrounder List of 64th Berlin Intl Film Festival winners
won the Golden Bear, the top jury prize awarded to the best film in the Berlin International Film Festival.The following is the complete list of jury prize winners:Golden Bear for the Best ...
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Bayern marches on Hamburg crisis intensifies
BERLIN (AP) -- Bayern Munich continued its Bundesliga march with a comfortable 4-0 win over Freiburg on Saturday, while Hamburger SV slipped into full crisis mode by losing 4-2 at bottom side ...
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German bunker turned into sustainable energy plant
IBA Hamburg restored the 42m-high ruined concrete shell, which had remained unoccupied since the end of the war. Working with German energy firm Hamburg Energie, the company transformed the bunker ...
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LIVE Videos and Interviews from past ITB Berlin trade shows.
Watch the videos and live interviews with movers and shakers of the industry, live from the show grounds from several ITB Berlin shows over recent years - only at 4Hoteliers.com.Go ...
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Fading German city sees hope threat in arrival of refugees
Hoyerswerda, Germany, where foreign refugees were driven out by neo-Nazi rioting in 1991, is trying again with a new refugee center. But it’s uncertain whether the refugees will be arriving to ...
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Ailing Patience Jonathan Secretly Flown To Germany
By SaharaReporters, New York Two reliable sources in Abuja have told SaharaReporters that First Lady Patience Jonathan was flown out to a German hospital for treatment. One source stated that ...
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Germany Bayern wins unbeaten streak at 46
Christof Stache/Getty Images BERLIN (AP) - Bayern Munich stretched its Bundesliga lead to 16 points with a comfortable 4-0 win over Freiburg on Saturday, while Hamburger SV fired its coach after ...
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Photos Video Winterlude at the German Embassy
Two well-known German graffiti artists, Arunski (left) and Poet, joined other Canadian artists to paint a mural outside the German Embassy during Winterlude to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall ...
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Asian cinema triumphs at Berlin film fest
China's stylish film noir "Black Coal, Thin Ice" by Diao Yinan about a washed up ex-cop investigating a series of grisly murders won the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top ...
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Merkel eyes more military cooperation with France
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that Germany wanted to bolster its military cooperation with France, particularly in war-torn areas of Africa, ahead of a joint cabinet meeting next ...
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Germany Proposes Network in Europe to Avoid U.S. Data Snooping
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to team up with France to establish Europe's own communications network -- and avoid surveillance snooping by America.After last year's reports ...
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Germany pledges $6.8 million to finance Caribbean renewable energy projects
Germany has pledged $6.8 million to help Caribbean trade bloc nations reduce their dependence on petroleum. Caricom said Saturday that the money will be made available through a regional renewable ...
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Berlin Festival Sets Box Office Record
Where the Berlin International Film Festival ranks among the world's top tier fests may be a matter of opinion and debate but in one category Berlin is the undisputed champion: ticket sales. ...
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Berlin Richard Linklaters Boyhood Takes Art House Honor
The Square (Al Midan): Sundance Review The prize was one of the many from independent juries judging films running at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The indie juries announced ...
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Berlin Ethiopian Drama Difret Gay Doc The Circle Win Panorama
had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It won the top prize at the Panorama Audience Awards, which are voted on by ordinary Berlinale cinema-goers. The Panorama Audience Award for best ...
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Berlin Argentine Feature Natural Sciences Wins Generation Kplus
Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure): Berlin Review The drama about a young girl going on a search for her absent father, took the top prize awarded by the Generation Kplus international ...
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Germany has leading role to play in climate change talks
Germany and Mexico co-hosted a global summit on climate change and some significant headway was made, but as the German Environment Minister pointed out, the most important issues remain unresolved. Germany is the regional power in Europe and just as it has played a leading role in dealing with the EU’s financial crisis, it will play a leading role in resolving climate change issues as well.
Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, commenting on the outcome of the 40-nation summit, told Germany news media that it had been “a contribution to making success possible again”, adding that the importance of the summit’s outcomes were significant because it laid the groundwork or foundation for further agreements on the most important issues. Read more