News Archive for July 2011
Here you can find articles published in July 2011. Return to full archive here-
01 July
- Germany beats Nigeria, heads to quarter-finals
- Merkel pressing Olympic bid with letter, Africa visit
- Friedrich warns of political violence
- Former Bundesbank boss Weber to lead UBS
- Munich to enforce dedicated bike parking
- The South rises again – in eastern Germany
- Leipzig Zoo unveils new home for Heidi the cross-eyed opossum
- Women's World Cup sees record television audience
- Greens call for action on 'toxic' dildos
- Justice minister demands EU probe Danish border controls
- ThyssenKrupp ship joint venture runs aground
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02 July
- Tens of thousands expected at Berlin yoga fest
- Euro bailouts push up German debt
- Coalition backs Guttenberg over Kunduz
- Pius ordinations ahead of Williamson appeal
- 81-year-old landlord admits shooting tenant and her boyfriend
- England and Japan through to World Cup quarter-finals
- SPD's Steinmeier won't rule out early elections
- 03 July
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04 July
- Members of French women's football team pose naked
- Coalition agrees to tax cuts in 2013
- Westerwelle calls for closer Turkey ties to EU
- VW secures majority stake in MAN trucks
- UK intel: Berlin and Paris wanted to exploit Blair-Brown feud
- Berlin woman dies at Roskilde Festival
- Otto von Habsburg, heir to Austria's last emperor, dies at 98
- Youth hostel arises in former Nazi holiday resort on Baltic Sea
- Lonely Star State: Texan Germans dwindling
- Bundeswehr begins new era as conscription ends
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05 July
- State minister calls for Denmark holiday boycott
- Greenpeace unveils Rainbow Warrior III in Germany
- Pensioners are falling behind, ministry admits
- Tough clash expected as Germany face impressive France
- Spaniards flock to Germany as eastern Europeans stay away
- Germany’s humble strength
- Merkel under fire for Saudi tank deal
- Egyptian seeds firm up as E.coli suspect
- Top court hears challenge to EU bailouts
- Summer returns, though with some rain
- Manhole rescue proves too much for plucky squirrel
- Exec at children’s TV station Kika jailed for embezzling millions
- Energy companies put UK nuke investments on hold
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06 July
- Germany tops group with win over France
- Bundeswehr joins EU combat force
- UN harshly criticizes German social policies
- Kaiserslautern footballers arrested in brothel after alleged hit and run
- Building a better house
- Merkel’s cabinet backs budget and tax cuts
- Duisburg mayor apologises to victims of Love Parade tragedy a year later
- Schäuble wants to 'break' ratings agencies' power
- iPhone tax fraud scheme sparks huge raid
- Victim asks for Germany to help save racist killer
- Munich bid for 2018 Winter Olympics fails
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07 July
- FDP tax revolt threatens Merkel's budget
- Nine ageing Germans sentenced over Nazi massacres in Italy
- Officer found dead after Bundestag post assault
- What's on in Germany: July 7 - July 13
- Group tries to count American expats abroad
- Police raid Stuttgart 21 rail project opponents
- Islamist charged for US airmen killings
- Saudi tank deal may be dirty, Greens MP says
- Two North Korean footballers test positive for steroids
- UK soldiers in Paderborn hit by car killing one
- Gene tests for IVF embryos legalised
- NYSE Euronext shareholders approve Deutsche Börse merger
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08 July
- Mother's milk: A secret weapon for everything
- Only half of Germans want tax cuts
- Cost of train graffiti and vandalism on the rise, operators say
- Export machine reawakens
- Fossils in Saxony shed light on ancient lizard life
- Beckenbauer furious over Munich Olympics snub
- Conservative MP admits alcohol problem after car accident
- Hitler's birthplace revokes dictator's citizenship
- Hackers steal police data from customs servers
- Prosecutors drop demand for Demjanjuk to return to jail
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09 July
- Germany face soccer showdown with Japan
- De Maizière rejects Saudi tank deal criticism
- Spider shuts down Saarland supermarket
- RWE said to be in investment talks with Russia's Gazprom
- Merkel to stand for chancellor in 2013
- Pensioner saves 7-year-old girl from stranger
- Germany ousted from World Cup by Japan
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10 July
- Man confesses in Mary Jane murder, police say
- Merkel to visit Africa for economic development talks
- Catholic Church to allow access to internal files
- Sex offender still on the loose after unlikely escape from clinic
- Guttenberg's father likens plagiarism scandal to 'tsunami'
- German prize for Putin stirs controversy
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11 July
- 'This is all about Assange consolidating his power'
- Heavy storms hit Bavaria
- World Cup defeat costs Germany place at 2012 Olympics
- Indian exec touted as next Deutsche Bank boss
- Dangerous stowaway spider likely dead
- BND intelligence agency loses HQ blueprints
- Google-funded Berlin internet institute to launch in October
- Merkel calls for Italian cuts to steady eurozone
- Holocaust denial verdict against UK bishop upheld
- Report: Duisburg shouldn't have approved ill-fated Love Parade
- Antitrust worries as RWE and Gazprom mull partnership
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12 July
- Former CSU boss slams Merkel's leadership
- France ponders how to slay US Goliath in World Cup semi-final
- Eastern workers still lag badly on wages
- Stray US Army bullets hit Bavarian buildings
- Werder Bremen players slapped with tattoo ban
- Schäuble strives to calm markets over Italy
- The Women's World Cup is not over
- Storms followed by cooler end to week
- IMF urges 'locomotive' Germany to pull Europe
- A Wurst-case scenario for the summer
- Women's football coach considers resigning after shock defeat
- Group refuses to rescind Quadriga award to Putin
- Italy jails Duisburg mafia massacre mastermind
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13 July
- CDU in teen-style Facebook party blunder
- Muslims call for imams in the German military
- Germany opposes EU plan to soften asylum regulations
- Berlin mayor wants to make Olympics bid
- Few recruits sign up for new voluntary civic service
- Priests no more likely to commit sex abuse than other men, researcher says
- Germany rejects need for eurozone crisis summit
- Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei accepts position at Berlin university
- Doctor fined for killing UK patient keeps licence
- Thai crown prince's plane seized at Munich airport in debt dispute
- Germany to fund new coal plants with climate change cash
- Nokia and Siemens keep NSN joint venture
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14 July
- US, Japan to face-off in epic finals clash
- Power outage throws Hannover into chaos
- Heavy storms sweep across Bavaria
- Families go grey with granny au pairs
- What's on in Germany: July 14 - July 20
- Another FDP politician stripped of doctorate in plagiarism affair
- Merkel visits Nigeria amid patrol boat row
- Living in a dying city
- Fallen media mogul Leo Kirch dies
- RWE joins forces with Gazprom for power play
- Arms deals raise human rights questions
- Shareholders back Deutsche Börse merger
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15 July
- Deutsche Bank sued over financial crisis losses
- E. coli tainted farm cleared to reopen
- Thai government fights back over seizure of prince's jet
- Turning on the bright lights
- Munich university prepares to unveil affordable electric car
- Europe's anger grows towards US debt police
- Not everyone cheering Lufthansa biofuel test
- Gottschalk jumps to ARD after Wetten, dass ..? accident
- Union calls for lunchtime naps
- Volkswagen sales hit record amid China boom
- Bank fails EU stress test
- 16 July
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17 July
- Underdogs Japan ready to topple giants US
- Patent row escalates between Samsung and Osram
- Koch-Mehrin to contest loss of her doctorate
- Kohl says Merkel is 'ruining' Europe
- Speculation mounts for Steinbrück comeback
- De Maizière promises to equip soldiers better
- Merkel calls for European credit rating agency
- Japan beat USA to win World Cup on penalties
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18 July
- Germany looks to Spain and Greece for workers
- Stolen intelligence HQ plans threaten position of top spook
- Rösler welcomes mooted Gazprom expansion
- Girls leap from burning house onto trampoline
- Daimler and Telekom face billion-euro loss on road toll fiasco
- Expat-run studio marries cinema, painting and video in Berlin
- Merkel defends handling of eurozone crisis
- New show jumping queen crowned
- Russian envoy slams retraction of Putin's prize
- Hackers threaten more attacks on official computers after arrest
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19 July
- Discovering Munich's best summer beer locations
- Interior Ministry denies training Saudi spooks
- MP calls for holiday brochures to contain human rights info
- Notorious Nazi's diaries to be auctioned
- Economy primed for next decade but poor lose out
- Merkel plays down future Russian gas dependence
- Cops losing tobacco smuggling battle
- Duden publishes special 'new German' dictionary
- Raid targets suspected Islamist fund-raisers
- Betraying Berlin
- Merkel expects no breakthrough at eurozone crisis summit
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20 July
- Stressful pregnancies lead to anxious children
- Merkel meets Sarkozy ahead of Euro summit
- Consumer food ingredient website crashes on launch
- Animal collection causes stink after dog defecation complaints
- Justice minster rejects outing sex offenders as post-jail regime still unclear
- Court releases Thai prince's impounded jet
- Southeast braces for heavy rains and flooding
- Niebel says arms sales 'compatible' with human rights
- Passengers shun airports after flight tax
- ECB says Greek bond purchase plan plausible
- Stone Age erotic art found in Bavaria
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21 July
- Seeking a salty soaking
- Germany, France break euro bailout deadlock
- Nazi Heß exhumed, ashes to be scattered at sea
- Germany 'missed its chance' to attract skilled eastern Europeans
- What's on in Germany: July 21 - July 27
- UN initiative declares global warming a threat to world peace
- Groundswell grows to name new tunnel for spaghetti western star
- Woman killed in Hesse house explosion
- Ships turn to private security to fight pirates
- Thais refuse to pay guarantee on prince's seized jet
- Porsche mulls update of James Dean's 550 Spyder
- Stuttgart 21 passes test as opponents baulk
- Merkel hails eurozone rescue deal for Greece
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22 July
- Cultivating the king of grapes
- Cities press to expand bottle deposit scheme
- Bundeswehr recruits quitting voluntary service
- Rösler plans special investment for Greece
- Open water swimmer Lurz takes fifth world title
- Germans 'reluctant' to help Africa as famine worsens
- Merkel's euro moment
- French and German mice refuse to play nice
- Car ploughs into crowd injuring 11 people
- Growth expected to match 2010 boom
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23 July
- Nowitzki joins Germany for Euro championships
- FDP threatens to abolish solidarity tax for former East Germany
- Germany sends condolences to Oslo
- Suzuki losing patience with VW, reports say
- German banks contribute €4.5 billion to Greece
- SPD politician calls for 'no politics' day
- Copy of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for sale on eBay
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24 July
- Iran demands Germany arrests rebel leader
- Schalke edge Dortmund to take Super Cup
- Government warns of hacks on 'soft' targets
- Duisburg mourns Love Parade victims
- German banks would have paid Greece more
- Friedrich sees no threat of far-right terrorism
- Germany offers to loan Libyan rebels €100 mln
- Hamilton wins German Grand Prix
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25 July
- German expat helped save people fleeing Norway shooting
- Norway killer considered Merkel a target
- Scandal-plagued insurer accused of ethnic discrimination
- Berlin doubles aid to combat African famine
- Deutsche Bahn signs renewable energy deal with RWE
- Week gets off to a cool and rainy start
- Website deflates writers full of hot air
- Germans court Syrian uprising amid crackdown
- New York's MoMA to toast Berlinale boss with foodie film fest
- Wagner festival opens with taboo-shattering Israeli performance
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26 July
- Deutsche Bank unveils leadership duo
- Norway killings spark debate on surveillance
- Six found dead in gas poisoning tragedy
- Saxony-Anhalt premier under fire for comparing police IDs to Jewish stars
- Police probe neo-Nazi link to Roma arson attack
- Polar bear Knut's body on ice four months later
- German Muslims worried after Norway massacre
- Consumer sentiment falls amid Greece crisis
- Munich Airport expansion approved despite opposition
- Preserving our open society after Oslo
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27 July
- States, union call for more immigrant police
- German workers retiring later in life
- Friedrich warns of hidden far-right threat
- One killed, 15 injured in Bavarian bus crash
- Daimler posts record Q2 results, sees strong 2011
- FDP wallows at record low despite shakeup
- Train driver sues parents of suicide victim
- C as in cocked-up campaign poster
- Caffeine powder for energy drinks probed
- Aachen employs smart phones to bust illegal parkers
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28 July
- Dialing a good read in a phone booth
- City refuses to name tunnel after actor Bud Spencer despite internet support
- Swim champ Britta Steffen makes shock withdrawal
- What's on in Germany: July 28 - August 3
- Siemens third quarter profits dip
- Lufthansa sees major profit increase
- Giving beer a home in the Rhineland
- BBC shows now available in Germany on iPad
- Booming Germany investing more abroad
- VW shares tank despite stellar earnings
- Vandals pee in holy water of Catholic church
- African famine blamed on Chinese land grab
- Guttenberg moving to the US to write book
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29 July
- Sphinx returned to Turkey after controversy
- Weekend drivers face massive traffic jams
- eBay blocks online retailers' Cuba products
- Ex-tenants face charges over gas leak deaths
- Cologne food fair foie gras snub angers French officials
- Spy agency doubts far-right network exists
- Greens revive calls for gay marriage
- Retail sales surge
- Miserable weather looms for the weekend
- BMW unveils electric and hybrid concept cars
- Stuttgart 21 arbitration ends in acrimony
- 30 July
- 31 July