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Fire kills three at German hospice
Cologne, Germany - A nighttime fire killed three terminally ill patients at a hospice in Cologne, Germany, police said early Saturday.
Jefferson Farfan's well-worked goal was enough to give Schalke a narrow 1-0 win over Mainz and move them to the top of the Bundesliga.
Yorkshire Christmas getaway nightmare
THE Christmas getaway nightmare continues as snow and freezing condition caused major travel delays in Yorkshire.
Koln (Cologne -- Whatever), Germany
Cologne, which is Koln , seems to be wide open. According to Wiki: The first city in Germany to introduce an explicit prostitution tax was Cologne.
Police are baffled after finding a 'Frankenstein-like' corpse covered with scars lying on a gravestone at a cemetery in Herford, Germany.
Rituxan (rituximab) is the first treatment to show improved overall...
Roche announced today at the 51st Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans, LA that the pivotal Phase III study CLL8 showed that patients with previously-untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia survived their disease longer when treated with Rituxan compared to chemotherapy alone.
St. Petersburg residents are expected to take advantage of budget flights to Germany from Lappeenranta next year.
Europe defies its Enlightenment values
With almost 58 percent of Swiss voters recently delivering an electoral surprise by casting ballots in a referendum that banned construction of minarets in their country, it remains to be seen whether the result of that decision will be good for Switzerland, or even for Europe as a whole.
Peter Frey to take over at Germany's ZDF
Peter Frey has been named the new editor-in-chief at German public broadcaster ZDF following a nomination process plagued by internal drama and political scandal.
Two Southeast Missouri farmers awarded in first of bellwether trials
A St. Louis jury that found an agriculture company and several of its affiliates negligent awarded over $2 million to two Stoddard County long-grain rice farmers in the first of several bellwether trials scheduled for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Germany's Wimmer RS unveils stonking 386 HP Volkswagen GTI
The exterior, especially for a German tuner, is admirably untouched: just a set of 20-inch Motec Antares wheels, and a lower stance with height-adjustable coilovers.
Asymptotic freedom in inflationary cosmology with a non-minimally coupled Higgs field
We consider the renormalization group improvement in the theory of the Standard Model Higgs boson playing the role of an inflaton with a strong non-minimal coupling to gravity.
$2 million verdict against Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience LP must pay about $2 million for losses sustained by two Missouri farmers when an experimental variety of rice the company was testing cross-bred with their crops, a federal jury ruled.
Work Resumes at E.ON's Datteln Coal-Fired Plant, an Industrial Info News Alert
German energy company E.ON AG : has been cleared to restart work on the company's troubled Datteln coal-fired plant after a stoppage of more than two months.
Germany: High child cancer survival rate
Researchers who evaluate healthcare in Germany report high survival rates for childhood cancer.
LANXESS Supports Chinese Language Education in Germany
LANXESS' Head of Human Resources Zhengrong Liu , explained to the German pupils from the "Landrat-Lucas" high-school in Leverkusen the meaning of Chinese ideographs.
Demjanjuk trial opens on Nazi death camp charges
John Demjanjuk sat in a wheelchair wrapped in a light blue blanket, his eyes closed and his face pale as his trial opened Monday on charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard.
Nature, Love Inspires Grawemeyer Award-Winning Music Piece
"Spheres," a six-movement work for orchestra by German composer York Hoeller, has earned the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Foreign Volunteers Helping Americans In Need
Alex Lepp and Sebastian Peters didn't know where they would land when they signed up for a yearlong volunteer mission.
Researchers unfold a key step in the process that tells plants to flower, findings that could one day benefit agriculture.
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