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Germany is in an uproar after the recent revelation that ex-members of the former East Germany's secret service are employed by the current German government.

Further protests are expected in Cairo over of the case of an Egyptian woman dubbed the "headscarf martyr" who was killed in a German courtroom last week.

L'AQUILA, Italy, July 9 -- Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized countries and five major developing countries agreed here on Thursday to reform financial institutions, boost development and conclude the Doha Round trade talks.

THE SUMMITEERS: G8 and G5 leaders at a photo opportunity at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, on Thursday.

In this April 17, 2007 file photo, exhibitors work on laptop computers in front of an illuminated sign of the Google logo at the industrial fair Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany.

In this May 1, 2009 file picture, a poster of the Imperial Railway Centre for German Tourist Travel is seen during the exhibition 'Blood and Spirit - Bach, Mendelssohn and their music in the Third Reich' in Eisenach, eastern Germany.

Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live will go on a 12-month world tour in response to huge demand from the late star's fans, its producers have said.

Leaders from the Group of Eight rich countries said on Wednesday that the world economy still faces significant risks despite signs of stabilization.

A 700-seater train has been prepared to remove passengers from a ship at the centre of an outbreak of the vomiting bug norovirus.

BERLIN - Germany's highest court has rejected an attempt by John Demjanjuk to challenge his recent deportation from the United States to Munich for trial on charges of being accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp.

An animal park in Neumuenster in northern Germany, which is home to Knut's father Lars and claims legal ownership of the star bear, sued Berlin Zoo in an attempt to get hold of some of the money that Knut generated.

Jul 08 - Oxfam campaigners call on G8 leaders to act on climate change, warning of catastrophic effects if they fail to take specific steps to limit global warming.

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, have come a step closer to understanding how cholesterol levels are regulated.

Developing countries need money now to grapple with global warming, and the Group of Eight summit this week could energize troubled climate negotiations if it decided to make "significant" funds available, the top U.N. climate official said yesterday.

WORLD leaders needed an exit strategy from the unprecedented spending and government intervention they resorted to during the global economic crisis and should use the G20 to co-ordinate it, Kevin Rudd said last night.

In this Jan. 25 2008 file picture an employee of German car producer Mercedes-Benz controls a Mercedes C-class as it rolls off the production line in the Daimler plant in Sindelfingen near Stuttgart, Germany.

T-Systems implements and operates the new infrastructure, and Nortel provides the Metro Ethernet Wide Area Networking technology for the Dortmund-based insurance group.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, CDU have rejected opposition calls to accelerate the country's nuclear phase-out. They say Germany should extend the operational life of the nation's reactors.

Leaders of the Group of Eight will push for common positions on promoting democracy in Iran, combatting climate change and coordinating their exits from huge government stimulus measures - even amid a growing sense that the group's pre-eminence may be fading.

Turkey said Monday it had reached a deal with several European countries over the terms of the proposed Nabucco pipeline meant to supply Europe with gas, and that they would sign an intergovernmental agreement in Ankara on July 13.