News Archive for February 2011
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01 February
- Merkel urges Israel to resume peace talks
- Two soldiers dead, four injured in accident at training area
- Ski jumping for everyone
- Train driver ignored two stop warnings before deadly crash
- Adjusted unemployment figures dip to record low for January
- Residents of former squat square up for forced eviction
- Government warns against all travel to Egypt
- Pirates allegedly shoot seaman on hijacked German ship
- Lena's Eurovision song selection begins
- Mercedes Benz relaunches hyper-luxury Maybach car in India
- Berlin to scale back anti-terrorism police
- 'It will be cacophony or a huge success'
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02 February
- German wins sixth straight Empire State Building stair race
- Polish cleaner lifts the lid on dirty Germany
- Westerwelle welcomes Mubarak's promise
- Former squat eviction sparks violent protest
- Hesse bans burkas for state workers
- Egypt and Mideast top Munich conference
- Egyptian protests trip up Miss Germany pageant preparations
- Bayern Munich to settle Robben row with Netherlands friendly
- Ice causes traffic chaos, but warmer weather lies ahead
- Firemen called to rescue beer
- New car sales up 17 percent
- Samurai sword killer flees hospital
- Krombacher profits bubble up thanks to soft drink sales
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03 February
- Lower Saxony mulls burka ban for officials
- Merkel and Zapatero seek unity on euro
- Berlin dismayed by violent turn in Egypt
- What's on in Germany: February 3 - 9
- Merkel rules out quota for women execs
- Saxony pays nobles millions for porcelain seized by communists
- ATM charges still too high, consumer groups say
- The neighbourhood that knew too much
- Dozens arrested as leftists battle police
- German salaries rose in 2010
- Munich Re weathers natural disasters to deliver profits
- Group urges Germans to become 'part-time vegetarians'
- German freighter sinks Indian frigate
- Spain has 'done its homework,' Merkel says
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04 February
- Dortmund hypes 'most important match on earth'
- Schröder for gradual quota for women execs
- Paris Hilton says she 'wants to learn about Stuttgart 21'
- Forgive Greek debt, bank boss Dibelius urges
- Catholic theologians call for end to celibacy for priests
- Half-century of CDU rule in Stuttgart on knife edge
- German women's football team star and coach get Barbie dolls
- Majority thinks quota needed for women execs
- Consumers fearful of rising energy costs
- Foreign Ministry denies failure to help Germans leave Egypt
- Merkel's tough euro plan sparks backlash
- 05 February
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07 February
- Bavaria hopes ski championships boost Olympic chances
- Hartz IV reform talks end without results
- Defence Ministry to keep Bonn presence
- Volkswagen to create 35,000 jobs in China
- It's a girl!
- Deutsche Bank boss slammed for women quota gaffe
- Tanker acid pumped into Rhine River
- The best of Berlin in February
- Luxury clinic tipped for Mubarak exit
- Love stunt ends in tragedy
- Wolfsburg sack McClaren
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08 February
- New protests erupt over Stuttgart 21 rail project
- United Nations wants more German soldiers
- Art-house 3D to feature at Berlinale
- Tourist forced to buy laptops for Filipino police
- Sailor who died on Gorch Fock was unfit for duty, report says
- Meet the 2011 Berlin Film Festival jury
- Volkswagen agrees to 3.2 percent pay hike
- Support grows for hosting Mubarak
- Cologne residents weary of Karneval craziness
- Speed skater Pechstein set on Olympics despite doping ban
- Mild weather expected to last most of the week
- Priest charged with embezzling over €1 mln
- Merkel slams dearth of female executives
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09 February
- New round of Hartz IV reform talks fails
- Navigating the Berlinale with The Local
- The Local’s guide to the Berlinale
- Stasi law change could lead to more probes
- The Local's best bets for the Berlinale
- Khodorkovsky film premiering in Berlin shadowed by controversy
- Germany desperate to break Italian curse
- Exports grow at record pace in 2010
- Aachen jailbreak convicts imprisoned for life
- Mubarak rejects medical trip to Germany
- Weber reportedly out of running for ECB job
- Merkel's coalition closes poll gap with opposition
- Lone wolf attacks 15 sheep overnight
- Ex-Wikileaks spokesman blasts Assange
- Deutsche Börse in merger talks with NYSE
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10 February
- Germany fail to break Italian curse
- Farmers angry over minister’s animal protection plan
- Pensioners want kids out of residential areas
- VW hopes mini Vader ad will boost US sales
- Wetten, dass? turns 30
- Winnenden father found guilty of manslaughter
- DAX companies oppose gender quota
- Winter to return
- What's on in Germany: February 10 - 16
- Daimler hit with EADS insider trading charges
- Man accused of having eight children with step-daughter
- Guttenberg to fly in Eurofighter jet
- Former Assange cohort says WikiLeaks is broken
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11 February
- Pump it up: Theatre mixes art with science
- Berlinale honours jailed Iranian director
- Westerwelle disappointed with Mubarak's speech
- Kidnapped toddler returned to parents after secret investigation
- Porsche unveils electric roadster
- Formaldehyde likely caused Gorch Fock sailor's weight gain
- Underage models encouraging paedophilia, ex-supermodel says
- Bundesbank boss Weber stepping down
- Heidi the cross-eyed opossum to tip Oscars
- Of mullets and men
- Researchers expose locked iPhone passwords in six minutes
- Merkel hails departure of Egypt's Mubarak
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12 February
- Germany joined by Brazil, India and Japan in UN challenge
- Weber says he ducked ECB job due to lack of European support
- Army set to open ranks to foreigners
- Merkel compares Egypt to Eastern Europe
- Teen footballer's evening goal raises questions on youth workers
- Fischer describes row with Schröder over Iraq
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13 February
- Gottschalk leaves Wetten dass..? after accident
- SPD and Greens set for power in Hamburg
- More than six million guns in private hands
- Chill easterly winds bring winter back to north and east
- Dresden marks bombing amid neo-Nazi march
- Steinbrück slaps down candidacy for ECB job
- Wenders and Herzog take art-house cinema 3D at Berlinale
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14 February
- Berlin takes home classical Grammy
- Germany offers Egypt help in run-up to vote
- Animal protection means higher food prices, minister says
- DHL ends delivery and assembly service for Ikea and Karstadt
- Water utility referendum a 'cold shower' for Berlin
- Siemens ready to spend billions on takeovers
- New German candidate for ECB possible
- Sandy the penguin finds love among her own kind
- Space Nazis colonize the moon in fan-funded film
- Earthquake rattles Rhine-Main region
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15 February
- 'Ethical' banks booming
- Lost sailors rescued by merchant ship near Argentina
- Politicians bicker over Tunisian refugees
- Documentary exposes suffering of Chinese with AIDS
- Harsh winter hits growth
- Ralph Fiennes directorial debut wins over critics at Berlinale
- Deutsche Telekom and VW probed for corruption
- 'German Fritzl' put on trial for incest
- Army eyes school dropouts to fill ranks
- Phlegmy or dry? Computerized telephone hotline diagnoses coughs
- Deutsche Börse seals merger with NYSE
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16 February
- WestLB submits restructuring plan
- Police detain 300 at atomic waste protest
- Chemical accident sparks major rescue operation
- Daimler hires first woman board member
- Guttenberg accused of plagiarizing PhD thesis
- Merkel aide Weidmann to head Bundesbank
- Jens Weidmann: The low-profile chancellor advisor
- Torrential rain clouds Germany's future
- Google creating internet institute in Berlin
- German-Turkish comedy looks at the lighter side of immigration
- Teens arrested for brutal metro attack
- Loud children no longer considered noise pollution
- Daimler revs up profit
- Incest trucker admits abusing daughter
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17 February
- Daring Nazi comedy applauded at Berlin film festival
- Guttenberg on surprise trip to Afghanistan
- Activists injured in nuclear waste train blockades overnight
- What's on in Germany: February 17 - 23
- 'Germans are fixated on earning titles'
- Failure to buckle-up on planes grounds for removal
- The education of Dr. Googleberg
- Daimler reportedly wants to sell EADS stake to government
- Neo-Nazis and leftists clash at assault trial
- Police officer suspended following Stasi informant allegations
- Fewer Germans consider children essential part of life
- Daimler unveils Indian truck brand BharatBenz
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18 February
- Gaming company made secret political donations, report says
- Terror threat still high, intelligence chief says
- Guttenberg drops Dr. title
- CDU heading for Hamburg hammering
- Lights, camera, action: Portraits honour German film industry greats
- Third Reich 3D films discovered
- Biker reportedly stopped Berlin metro attack
- Wiesbaden tops real estate investment ranking
- Three soldiers killed, several others injured
- Chinese firms struggling to enter German market, study says
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19 February
- Police hunt Einstein family murder witness
- Argentine film takes top Teddy award as Berlinale prizes approach
- German police officers work undercover abroad
- Guttenberg accused of using parliamentary researcher for thesis
- Neo-Nazis and protestors fill a tense Dresden
- Eurovision Song Contest entry is decided
- Iran frees two German reporters
- 20 February
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21 February
- Breakthrough forged in Hartz IV welfare talks
- Train drivers to strike nationwide Tuesday
- Youths attack homeless man in Berlin metro station
- Google Maps ignites Dutch border dispute
- Snow and ice blitz southern traffic
- Website finds huge parts of Guttenberg's thesis plagiarized
- German media roundup: Hamburg's bellwether vote
- Business confidence hits new record high
- Big high-tech firms return to CeBIT
- William and Kate snub German nobles on wedding invitations
- BMW launches electric and hybrid brand
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22 February
- Guttenberg gives up Dr. title for good
- Strike cripples commuter rail service nationwide
- Merkel mulls sanctions on 'scary' Gaddafi
- Lufthansa South American flights make emergency landings
- Demjanjuk threatens hunger strike at trial
- Frisians ward off evil spirits with bonfire festival
- Grave of 'Nosferatu' discovered
- Winter's last gasp brings deep freeze
- McDonald's hiring after digesting record sales
- Poland expects no labour exodus to Germany
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23 February
- Greens slump again in opinion poll
- Commerzbank bounces back to profitability
- Guttenberg 'used Dr. title before earning it'
- Data protection officials target web advertising
- Cottbus chamber of commerce head resigns after Stasi allegations
- Berlin pressures US to free convicted murderer
- Lame tiger cub learning to walk with water therapy
- Gaming party in Bundestag rankles MPs
- Wintershall stops oil production in Libya
- Daimler creating 4,000 jobs in Germany
- Brüderle reluctant to buy EADS shares
- Germany: Libyan regime has 'lost all legitimacy'
- Guttenberg more popular despite plagiarism flap
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24 February
- Amnesty: Germany must take Libyan refugees
- Major fraud suspected with HIV drugs
- Chemical giant BASF sees profits soar
- What's on in Germany: February 24 - March 2
- Cross-eyed opossum Heidi makes Oscar picks
- Turkey wants its sphinx back, minister says
- European tourists prefer Germany over France
- Allianz predicts €8-billion profit for 2011, give or take half a billion
- Dumpster diving for dinner and a better world
- Teen in court for holding two boys as 'slaves'
- Warships head to Libya
- Schumacher still a role model for F1's Vettel
- Bayern boss van Gaal hails 'Super Mario'
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25 February
- Bayern Munich downplays Inter Milan win before Dortmund match
- Rail traffic hit hard by second strike this week
- Westerwelle calls for Qaddafi clan sanctions
- Brandenburg Green party treasurer vanishes with €40,000
- Weekend weather to divide nation
- US Army targeted interior minister with 'psy-ops'
- Economists demand EU sovereign default plan
- Merkel slams Netanyahu for stalled peace talks
- Wild boars destroy UK soldiers' cemetery
- Bundesrat passes Hartz IV welfare reforms
- VW posts record and targets even better 2011
- Scientists hope to rebuild Bamiyan Buddha
- 26 February
- 27 February
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28 February
- Bayern Munich gives up title hopes as Leverkusen draws with Bremen
- Erdogan slams 'xenophobia' and urges Turks to integrate
- Germans and Brits stage covert rescue in Libya
- Health Minister rejects limit to waiting period for appointments
- Cross-eyed opossum Heidi gets Oscar tips partly right
- A train ride to nowhere
- Hells Angel jailed over police shooting
- Bayer hit by surprise Q4 loss on heavy charges
- Germany proposes 60-day freeze on payments to Libya
- Schavan 'embarrassed' by Guttenberg
- Broken vacuum cleaner sets off terror alert
- Tech fair CeBIT rides bullish IT sector
- BMW and Peugeot team up for hybrid technology