May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Verdi":
Business & Money: 27 Apr 12
Germany’s third largest mail-order company, Neckermann, is cutting more than half its jobs in a bid to stay in business after being hit hard by falling turnover in the clothes market.
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Science & Technology: 27 Apr 12
A row blew up over a violent computer game on Friday after it took top honours at the German Computer Game Awards against the wishes of the government, which partly sponsors the €50,000 first prize.
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Society: 27 Apr 12
Germany's king of kitsch Dieter Bohlen, who earns a fortune criticising teenagers with sarcastic one-liners on a TV talent show, is going to the European Court of Human Rights over an advertising campaign that mocked him.
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Science & Technology: 20 Apr 12
Two German gynaecologists will have to pay child support for twins they created via artificial insemination – because the biological father did not know anything about it.
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National: 6 Apr 12
A German teacher was charged with 12 charges of abuse after admitting on Thursday he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old pupil over several months.
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National: 4 Apr 12
A man who killed a young American woman, using a penknife to stab her 180 times, was told he will probably spend the rest of his life in a secure psychiatric clinic by a court in Hamburg on Wednesday.
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Society: 3 Apr 12
Germany’s own tabloid newspaper scandal involving a three-in-a-bed sex tape, blackmail and an exclusive interview with a television star looks set to return to court after a Bild journalist’s acquittal was overturned on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 31 Mar 12
Further public sector strikes have been prevented by a pay deal reached on Saturday morning giving workers a 6.3 percent raise over two years. German airports were paralysed and many other services disrupted by the strikes.
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Society: 28 Mar 12
A man who bought a fake luxury mobile phone via Ebay for €782 stands to get €23,000 in damages after the German Supreme Court ruled that the €1 price was no indication that it was not a real one.
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National: 28 Mar 12
The young black German whose refusal to show police his ID led to a court ruling that cops could use skin colour as a criteria for spot-checks, told Hannah Cleaver he will fight the case all the way.
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Business & Money: 27 Mar 12
Nearly all of Germany's airports were shut down on Tuesday morning as the next round of public sector strikes took hold. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled.
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Sport: 26 Mar 12
German World Cup legend Rudi Völler has launched an extraordinary attack against the football coverage on Sky TV, saying the pundits were Muppets.
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National: 26 Mar 12
Commuters were left struck at train stations and parents at home with their children on Monday as tens of thousands of public sector workers went on strike ahead of talks with employers this week.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 12
Public workers under 30 should have the same amount of holidays as their older colleagues, and a clause which set up different entitlement should be abolished, a German court ruled on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 19 Mar 12
Thousands of public sector workers in Germany staged a warning strike over a pay dispute Monday, in a second wave of industrial action that is set to roll out across the country.
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National: 18 Mar 12
Following warning strikes in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and many other parts of the country, the public sector union Verdi is turning its attention to Berlin and has announced the capital will be hit by strikes this week.
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Lifestyle: 15 Mar 12
This Week's Highlights: LA art in Berlin, Feist in Frankfurt, and Europe's biggest book fair begins in Leipzig.
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National: 8 Mar 12
Organisers of the world’s biggest information technology fair CeBIT in Hannover are appealing to residents of the city to give delegates a lift, as the public transport system was paralysed by a strike.
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National: 6 Mar 12
Over 7,000 public service workers took part in a second day of strikes in Germany on Tuesday. The sector is embroiled in a fight for higher wages.
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National: 5 Mar 12
Public service strikes began across western German states on Monday morning, with tens of thousands of staff expected to take part in a protest for higher wages.
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National: 3 Mar 12
Germany's foreign ministry Saturday said it had summoned Iran's ambassador to demand the release of an Iranian-born Christian pastor whose death sentence Berlin fears will be carried out soon.
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Society: 22 Feb 12
A 29-year-old German man has been charged with conning Walter Mixa, a former Catholic bishop who resigned following child abuse allegations, out of nearly €5,000.
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Sport: 19 Feb 12
British boxer Dereck Chisora was arrested on Sunday by Munich police after an out-of-ring brawl with ex-champion David Haye. Chisora had just lost to Vitali Klitschko.
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National: 18 Feb 12
Berlin’s underground, tram and bus network ground to a halt on Saturday causing chaos for at least 1.8 million people as public transport workers went on strike for higher wages.
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National: 17 Feb 12
Travel chaos at Frankfurt Airport is expected to worsen on Friday, as air traffic ground staff extend their strike. Hundreds of flights could be cancelled at Germany's biggest air hub.
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National: 10 Feb 12
A German court handed down a life sentence Friday to a man who has confessed to killing two US soldiers at Frankfurt Airport in what has been called Germany's first deadly jihadist attack.
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National: 9 Feb 12
An eight-person family that avoided paying rent for years by moving house every two to three weeks has finally been caught in the northern German town of Schneverdingen.
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National: 3 Feb 12
A 35-year-old man who deliberately drove the wrong way down a south German motorway and crashed head-on into a car, killing one person has been jailed for 12 years but may be held indefinitely under preventative detention rules.
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National: 27 Jan 12
A Bavarian auctioneer who priced the world’s most expensive rug at €900 has escaped paying damages to its former owner. The woman sued the Augsburg auction house after her rug reached €7.2 million at a Christie’s auction in 2011.
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National: 13 Jan 12
German judges have called for a complete rethink of security after a prosecutor was shot dead by a man in court who seemingly had no problem taking a pistol into the court.
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National: 12 Jan 12
The businessman who shot dead a prosecutor in court in Bavaria, would have walked out a free man had he not fired a gun at the judge and then turned on the prosecutor.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A man who took a packet of out-of-date biscuits from a bin next to a bakery is fighting his way through the courts, opposing a charge of trespass.
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Politics: 10 Jan 12
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has thrown strong support behind North Africa’s emerging democracies during an historic visit to Algeria, Libya and Tunisia, saying Germany wants to play a key role in helping them succeed.
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National: 9 Jan 12
A man who shot dead two American soldiers in Germany last March should go to jail for life, prosecutors demanded on Monday as a court heard closing arguments in his trial
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National: 9 Jan 12
Organisers of a rally to remember an asylum seeker who died in police custody have complained after two people were injured during their demonstration in Dessau – including one man who was carried unconscious from the scene.
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Society: 5 Jan 12
The trial of a pensioner who allegedly set a homeless man on fire in July began Thursday in the western German town of Essen. The homeless man died from severe burns.
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National: 27 Dec 11
An ongoing legal struggle over whether the label Biomineralwasser, "organic mineral water," misleads consumers will go all the way to Germany's top court, it emerged Tuesday.
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National: 13 Dec 11
An incestuous relationship between a man and his daughter was an open secret in a Bavarian village since at least 1982, according to testimony in the trial of Adolf B. – accused of raping and fathering three disabled kids with his victim.
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Lifestyle: 8 Dec 11
This Week's Highlights: Choirs sing Bach in Leipzig, a rock opera in Frankfurt and a ballet rendition of "A Christmas Carol" in Dresden.
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Society: 8 Dec 11
A Bavarian woman who thought her carpet was worth about €900 was delighted when an auctioneer sold it for nearly €20,000 – but took him to court after it was then sold at an auction for more than €7 million.
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National: 28 Nov 11
A man charged with raping his daughter nearly 500 times and fathering three children by her during a 34-year reign of domestic terror told a German court on Monday the sex had been consensual.
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Sport: 25 Nov 11
Second division outfit Dynamo Dresden have been kicked out of next season's German Cup following violence by fans in last month's exit to Dortmund.
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National: 17 Nov 11
Online retail giant Amazon has come under fire in Germany for using nearly 1,500 people on the most basic social support as unpaid packers in its logistics centres in the run-up to Christmas.
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Business & Money: 28 Oct 11
Germany's top court Friday stopped a new fast-track committee appointed to approve emergency measures to tackle the eurozone crisis, saying only the Bundestag had this power.
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Society: 23 Oct 11
A French father won a 30-year quest for justice for his dead daughter on Saturday, after a German doctor he had kidnapped and delivered to the French courts to face charges was convicted of her killing.
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National: 18 Oct 11
A US company that trains military medics in field operations using live pigs is trying to bring its courses to Germany. Animal rights group PETA believes the company is using US Army protection to bypass German animal protection laws.
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Society: 12 Oct 11
The Pirate Party and the Free Democratic Party declared on Wednesday that the use of spyware to track criminals was unconstitutional, but the government said the trojans are always adapted to remain within the law.
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National: 12 Oct 11
Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign policy committee, has demanded a temporary halt in negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union after the conviction of former Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko.
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National: 8 Oct 11
A possible strike by air traffic controllers could ground flights in Germany next week, after negotiations failed to end an ongoing labour dispute.
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Business & Money: 5 Oct 11
Germany may not be on the brink of a severe recession, but the country long seen as the financial powerhouse of Europe appears to be headed for economic stagnation.
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National: 27 Sep 11
Germany’s top court on Tuesday dismissed claims by two German investors for damages for losses they made due to the bankrupt American investment firm Lehman Brothers. The verdict could set a precedent for other investors.
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National: 18 Sep 11
Two of the three young men involved in a death outside a Berlin U-Bahn metro station turned themselves in on Saturday evening. Early Saturday morning, a 23-year-old died after being chased by assailants and hit by a car.
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National: 9 Sep 11
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Hamburg remains stigmatised by perceptions it was a breeding ground for Islamist terrorists, according to the director of the city's domestic intelligence service. Hannah Cleaver reports.
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National: 7 Sep 11
Germany's top court ruled on Wednesday that aid for Greece and rescue packages for other eurozone countries was legal but said parliament must have greater say in any future bailout.
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National: 7 Sep 11
Germany's top court will Wednesday decide on the legality of Europe's rescue fund, in a landmark ruling with major implications for future aid as the eurozone debt crisis continues to rage.
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National: 31 Aug 11
A 21-year-old man from Kosovo apologised in court Wednesday for killing two US soldiers at Frankfurt Airport as they headed to Afghanistan, saying he had been influenced by Islamist propaganda.
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Politics: 26 Aug 11
Germany's Federal Auditing Office has criticized the Transportation Ministry for wasting taxpayer’s money by paying for personnel to attend a trade union conference on the North Sea island of Helgoland.
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Business & Money: 6 Aug 11
The downsizing of one of Germany's leading energy companies could be much more devastating than previously expected. E.ON may be considering cutting up to 10,000 jobs worldwide.
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National: 4 Aug 11
A German court on Thursday awarded more than €3,000 ($4,265) in damages to a child murderer over a threat by police to inflict "unimaginable pain" if he did not reveal his victim's whereabouts.
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Business & Money: 18 Jul 11
Daimler and Deutsche Telekom may have to strike a billion-euro compensation deal with the government over the disastrous introduction of a truck road toll in Germany more than six years ago.
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Sport: 13 Jul 11
Less than a week after Munich’s Winter Olympics bid was defeated, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said he wants the German capital to host the Summer Games.
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National: 12 Jul 11
An Italian court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to the mastermind of a mafia massacre outside a pizzeria in the German city of Duisburg that killed six rival clan members in 2007.
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National: 11 Jul 11
A German appeals court on Monday upheld renegade British bishop Richard Williamson's conviction for Holocaust denial, but reduced the fine ordered by a lower court to €6,500.
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National: 8 Jul 11
German prosecutors said Friday that they have withdrawn a demand for ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk to return to jail pending appeals of his conviction for assisting in killing nearly 30,000 Jews.
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National: 5 Jul 11
Germany's Constitutional Court opened new hearings Tuesday on challenges to the legality of Berlin's involvement in debt rescue loans for Greece and other struggling eurozone countries.
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Society: 28 Jun 11
EasyJet, the no-frills airline, faces strike action in Germany starting next week following a vote by pilots and flight attendants demanding a new contract, trade union Verdi said Monday.
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National: 14 Jun 11
A police doctor has been acquitted in Germany for the second time for his involvement in force-feeding a small-time drug dealer with litres of water and an emetic to make him throw up, after which he died.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 11
Germany's biggest drugstore chain Schlecker is closing up to a tenth of its stores across the country in a bid to draw a line under the last three years of financial losses.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 11
An increasing number of Germans running their own businesses are claiming basic social benefits as their income falls, according to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday.
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Society: 13 Jun 11
Around 1,500 people gathered at Lake Starnberg outside Munich on Monday to mark the 125th anniversary of the death of Bavaria's most famous monarch – "Mad" King Ludwig II. Conspiracy theories still linger over his apparent suicide.
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Society: 31 May 11
After a 14-month legal drama in which lawyers were sacked, the impartiality of judges challenged and the accuser’s story changed, German TV weatherman Jörg Kachelmann was cleared Tuesday of charges of raping his former girlfriend.
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Lifestyle: 26 May 11
This week’s highlights: Contemporary design in Berlin, classic cars in Hamburg, and a night of music in Munich.
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Society: 16 May 11
A German man scooped the title of world's best beard on Sunday after impressing competition hosts in Norway with his facial hair featuring a moose and a Norwegian flag.
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National: 14 May 11
A warning strike by Easyjet employees at Berlin's Schönefeld airport caused severe disruption on Saturday morning. Several flights had to be cancelled, while many others were delayed.
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Society: 12 May 11
Former Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk was set free by a Munich court on Thursday, despite receiving a five-year jail term for helping to murder at least 28,000 people at Sobibor death camp in Poland.
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National: 10 May 11
The trial of 91-year-old alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk is due to end this week, marking a watershed moment in Germany's bid to deal with World War II crimes judicially.
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National: 1 May 11
German drug store chain Schlecker, long attracting negative publicity for its poor payment of staff and the leak of personal information of its customers, has stepped in it again – with the emergence of a list of workers it seemingly wants to fire.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 11
Politicians, labour representatives and employers are looking towards next weekend with varied feelings as the date approaches when people from eight new EU member countries will have the right to work in Germany.
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Business & Money: 20 Apr 11
A court has ruled that Deutsche Bahn cannot protect its extensive bus services by stopping a start-up business which offers cheaper long-distance coach trips across Germany.
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National: 16 Apr 11
An Italian court on Friday sentenced German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp's director-general in Italy to 16.5 years in jail for the deaths of seven workers after a fire at its Turin plant in December 2007.
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National: 13 Apr 11
The lawyer of alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk called Wednesday for his German trial to be scrapped after new FBI documents emerged calling into question a vital piece of evidence.
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Society: 7 Apr 11
Flights out of Berlin’s Schönefeld airport by budget airline Easyjet were being cancelled Thursday morning after a limited warning strike by cabin staff.
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Society: 31 Mar 11
The owner of four dogs that attacked and killed a three-year-old last year was handed a suspended sentence of one year and 80 hours of community service by a Thuringian court on Friday.
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Society: 28 Mar 11
A doctor who used lemon juice to disinfect his patients’ operation wounds and removed healthy organs was sentenced to four years in a minimum security facility followed by a four-year ban on practising medicine, a court said Monday.
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National: 26 Mar 11
A majority of Germans support their government's decision not to take part in the military action against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, a survey revealed Saturday.
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National: 22 Mar 11
German prosecutors Tuesday said John Demjanjuk should serve a six-year jail term for helping to murder 27,900 Jews during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
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National: 21 Mar 11
A German trucker accused of sexually abusing his daughter and fathering eight children with his stepdaughter, confessed to all charges on Monday, a court spokesman said.
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Society: 17 Mar 11
Prosecutors called Thursday for a German man accused of sexually abusing his daughter, stepdaughter and stepson to spend more than 14 years in jail, in a case that has shocked the country.
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Business & Money: 11 Mar 11
The five-week wage dispute between public employees and Germany’s state employers ended late on Thursday evening with an agreement to increase salaries for some 600,000 workers.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 11
After initial strikes in the states of Hesse and Saarland on Monday, public workers' unions called temporary strikes for members in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein on Tuesday.
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National: 22 Feb 11
John Demjanjuk, a 90-year-old accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews during his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard, threatened Tuesday to go on hunger strike as his trial neared an end.
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Society: 19 Feb 11
The first prizes of the Berlin film festival were awarded on Friday night, with the Teddy Award for best gay and lesbian film going to the Argentine melodrama Ausente.
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National: 17 Feb 11
Right-wing extremists and leftists clashed in a Nuremberg courtroom on Thursday, spurring the judge to eject them to continue a trial against a neo-Nazi charged with beating a teenager so severely he was permanently disabled.
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Society: 17 Feb 11
Airline captains have the right to kick passengers off of their planes for refusing to wear seatbelts at takeoff, according to a German court verdict published Thursday.
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National: 16 Feb 11
A German truck driver who fathered seven children with his stepdaughter admitted in court on Wednesday to also sexually abusing his biological daughter over a number of years.
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National: 15 Feb 11
A German trucker went on trial Tuesday accused of sexually abusing his daughter and stepchildren for decades after neighbours and social services apparently ignored warning signs.
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National: 10 Feb 11
Two years after a deadly school rampage in the southern German town of Winnenden, the father of the shooter was given a suspended sentence because he failed to keep the gun used in the killings locked away.
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Society: 19 Jan 11
Disgruntled employees in Germany who compare conditions at their workplace to the Third Reich can be justifiably fired, according to a Hessian labour court ruling published on Wednesday.
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Society: 18 Jan 11
A financial crisis thriller starring Kevin Spacey and Demi Moore and a French 3D animated feature will vie for the top prizes at next month's Berlin film festival, organisers said Tuesday.
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Lifestyle: 13 Jan 11
This Week's Highlights: Berlin hosts a Japanese festival, Cologne celebrates design and Frankfurt resounds with Italian arias.
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