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Pan-European TV shingle Banijay Entertainment has bought a 50% stake in Germany's Brainpool TV.

Some cash-conscious travelers are taking to water this summer for their holidays, discovering river cruising holidays where their boat is their hotel and they wake up with a new view every day.

Fast-growing French production house Banijay Entertainment has taken a 50% stake in German group Brainpool, the company behind hit format "Beat Your Host." Brainpool owners Jorg Grabosch, Ralf Gunter, Andreas Scheuermann and Stefan Raab control the remaining 50% of the Cologne-based company, each holding a 12.5% stake.

Forecasts from the May 2009 Hotel Market Forecast report from STR Global, the leading provider of market information to the worlda s hotel industry, indicate that average daily rate declines during the next 24 months across Germanya s major cities will be the main cause of the industrya s sluggish performance.

Legislation in Germany does not allow Bulgarians to vote outside diplomatic and consular missions premises.

We were traveling From Germany to Italy. We stopped to sleep a couple of hours at a rest stop/gas station parking lot in Austria.

Orders for German machinery showed another sharp annual decline in May as the global recession hurt demand, an industry group said Wednesday, although retail sales managed a small monthly increase.

When planning a trip to Germany, one might have a hard time deciding which city to visit.

Whether he was on tour, on the country's favorite variety show or travelling privately, Michael Jackson clearly enjoyed his trips to Germany.

Six Austrian teams will compete in the search-and-rescue dog World Championships from 1 to 5 July in Romania.

European leaders gathered on Saturday in Budapest to mark the 20th anniversary of the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain, often described as the first crack in the Berlin Wall and one of the key episodes leading to the end of communism in Eastern Europe.

Most visitors to Germany's reunited capital wouldn't recognise it as such, but there is still a bit of original Berlin Wall left standing in the city's Bernauerstrasse a street once famous for daring escapes from the former Communist East to the West.

With the death of pop star Michael Jackson at the age of 50, BBC correspondents report on the reaction around the world.

Betsy Brennan , a graduate of the class 2009 from The Hudson School , received a full scholarship this month paid by the U.S. Congress to study abroad in Germany for a year.

Legislation in Greece, Canada, Macedonia and Germany does not allow Bulgarians to vote outside diplomatic and consular missions premises.

A typical problem facing any foreign student is the question of adaptability to conditions not only at local academic institutions but also to living conditions in a foreign country where cultural and other differences, not to mention a totally different language, can be a cumbersome affair.

Sacha Baron Cohen and his team of dancers perform 'United Colours of Brunotton' Photo: REUTERS A bewildered audience watched as the comedian, dressed as his latest creation Bruno , lunged around the German capital in a pink fluffy bodysuit, complete with fake nipples and a penis.

In several cities across Germany and Europe, thousands of Iranian exiles have taken to the streets to denounce the government in Tehran and last week's disputed presidential election.

Midnight on Alexanderplatz: 15 years ago East Berlin's principal square was deserted at this hour, save for the grotesque bronze caricatures of communism's founding fathers.

Former East Germany remains "significantly under-represented" as a tourist destination, a senior German minister said on Friday, at a conference aimed at boosting foreign visitors to the country's "new" federal states.