Teen fatally stabbed in Hamburg S-Bahn station
A 19-year-old man has died after he was stabbed during a conflict with a group of five teenagers at an S-Bahn train station in Hamburg, the police said on Saturday.
Day: May 15, 2010
Claudia Schiffer gives birth to third child
German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, 39, gave birth to a baby girl – her third child – on Friday. “Mother and baby are happy and doing well,” Schiffer’s spokeswoman told German paper Welt am Sonntag.
Daimler to stop trading on New York Stock Exchange
Daimler has announced plans to bid Wall Street goodbye with its withdrawal from the New York stock exchange. The carmaker's move to delist means it will no longer be obligated to report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lafontaine steps aside for new Left party leaders
Oskar Lafontaine, co-leader of Germany’s far-left party Die Linke, quits the political stage this weekend because of illness: But he leaves the party he founded in rude health.
Car and mobile phone of kidnapped banker’s wife found
Police said the black Mercedes A-Class car and mobile phone belonging to the wife of a senior banker kidnapped this week have been found, as the search for 54-year-old Maria Bögerl continued Saturday.
Merkel says major budget cuts on the horizon
Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that bringing Germany’s budget in line would entail painful spending cuts - but dismissed calls by Hessian state premier Roland Koch to slash funding on education, research and childcare.
Google gathering private data via ‘Street View’
Google is halting the collection of WiFi network information for its controversial "Street View" mapping service after admitting it mistakenly gathered personal data sent over unsecured systems following a German audit.