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CNN : South African runner Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep the gold medal she won in the women's 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, in August, the country's sports ministry announced Thursday.

Menahem Pressler is a renowned pianist and a faculty member at IU's Jacobs School of Music.

The digital mammomat is seen at the mammamobil on April 8, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

The European Union's 27 leaders were facing an all-nighter Thursday as a bruising battle loomed over naming the bloc's first full-time president and new foreign policy chief.

British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence "revolution" being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox.

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Cinema For Peace Photocall as part of the 59th Berlin Film Festival at the Hotel Adlon on February 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

British TV personality David Frost will be honored at the 37th Annual International Emmy Awards for a wide-ranging career that has taken him from pioneering political satire on television to conducting serious interviews with former President Richard Nixon and other newsmakers.

COLOGNE, Germany - Latin superstar Ricky Martin said Thursday he is teaming up with a German broadcaster to support his foundation and build a youth center for children in his native Puerto Rico.

European football braced on Friday for more details on a fresh match-fixing scandal reportedly involving huge sums of money placed with Asian bookmakers on suspect matches in nine countries.

Herman Van Rompuy's appointment as the first European Union president provoked fears in Turkey that he might hinder Ankara's hopes of joining the bloc, with some media declaring outright that he is anti-Turkish. Photograph by: YVES HERMAN Credit: REUTERS Van Rompuy is a compromise candidate, but he is obviously backed by France and Germany, so this ...

EUROPEa s top jobs were filled in record time at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels last night, but the initial reaction was one of disappointment.

Actor Brad Pitt attends the German premiere of 'Inglourious Basterds' on July 28, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

German carmaker Volkswagen AG said Friday it will buy some assets of German contract carbuilder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH to create a new manufacturing subsidiary that will eventually build a new car model.

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has successfully completed the worldwide first LTE data call on the 800 MHz "European Digital Dividend" spectrum band in a live network.

General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, but did not specify the amount of cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek.

Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.

Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.

Caster Semenya of South Africa celebrates winning the gold medal in the women's 800 Metres Final during day five of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 19, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

German police have arrested an undisclosed number of people suspected of fixing matches in major European soccer leagues.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest.