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Hungarian flag-carrier Malev ceased operating early on Friday after its planes were held overseas for unpaid debts, leaving a gap in the market that low-cost competitors were quick to exploit.

The United Nations' highest court ruled on Friday that Italy's courts were wrong to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation against Germany because it has legal immunity from being sued.

China's main ruling party newspaper criticized sanctions on Iran as German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Friday with President Hu Jintao after urging Beijing to press Tehran to avoid developing nuclear weapons.

Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is brushing aside a cake-in-the-face attack, saying in a Facebook posting that at least he didn't go hungry at an event in Berlin.

A number of big companies in Germany have recently announced substantial layoffs.

PLANEGG, GERMANY and MUNICH, GERMANY-- - Agennix AG announced that, upon the recommendation of the study Data Safety Monitoring Board , the Company has stopped further enrollment and treatment in the Phase II/III OASIS trial with talactoferrin in severe sepsis.

Greece needs about an extra $20 billion to get its debt down to manageable levels - and the rest of the 17-country eurozone is being asked to help foot the bill.

Bosnian people caring food supplies in a remote village, cut of by road due high snow fall, near Bosnian town of Sokolac, 70 kms east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Wednesday, Feb.

Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, both Muslim converts from Solingen in Germany, were arrested in July entering the UK at Dover port.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao before a news conference in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing February 2, 2012.

Twenty years ago, a reunified Germany opened the archives of the East German secret police, the dreaded Stasi, to the public.

Fan-filmed video footage of British/American grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH performing two new songs - "Analysis Paralysis" and "Quarantined" on January 27 at the Vortex club in Siegen, Germany can be seen below.

A 64-year old tub of Swift's Bland lard is pictured in Rostock, northeastern Germany.

In a modest home on a quiet street in Avon there lives a genuine war hero. Humble and unassuming, retired Col.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 -- Sleep apnea, the disorder marked by abnormal pauses in breathing during sleep, is already known to boost the risk of stroke.

WTOP's Thomas Warren recently traveled to Germany for a fellowship with the RIAS Berlin Kommission.

In her first trip abroad this year, German Chancellor Merkel sets off to China. Chinese support in the euro crisis and the oil embargo against Iran are expected to be on the agenda.

The number of people out of work fell a seasonally adjusted 34,000 to 2.85 million, the Nuremberg-based Federal Labor Agency said Tuesday.

The tickets, put on carelessly parked cars in Potsdam, include a fine of 0 euros and the cheerful message "Glueck gehabt!!!" . The new approach is designed to admonish motorists without hitting them in the wallet.

Joblessness in Italy rose to its highest since current records began in 2004, underlining the divergent fortunes of nations at the region's core and its periphery.