News Archive for September 2011
Here you can find articles published in September 2011. Return to full archive here-
01 September
- Women footballers heat up the pitch for calendar
- Germany greets new Libyan ambassador
- Alcohol ban begins on Hamburg public transport
- No one's protecting Baltic Sea well, though Germany's better than most
- What's on in Germany: September 1 - 7
- Kids call Boetticher on voting age hypocrisy
- US government blocks T-Mobile sale
- Public deficit drops to three-year low
- Scientists create microchip for monitoring tumours
- Relatives of Kunduz bomb victims to sue
- Spectacular art forgery trial begins in Cologne
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02 September
- Yvonne the cow forced to give up fugitive life
- Schäuble wants brand new EU treaty
- Niebel: Libya doesn't need more aid
- Customers unlikely to see TelDaFax money
- World's biggest electronics fair opens in Berlin
- Bare baby bums and flyswatters
- Ban on classic video game 'Doom' lifted
- Merkel campaigns to the last in north-east
- Warm weekend weather defies start of autumn
- Deutsche Bank mulling major job cuts
- Germany's foreign policy zombie
- 03 September
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04 September
- Northeastern state election gets underway
- Qaddafi's spy service had ties to German intelligence
- IMF chief urges action on German economy
- Investigators probe hospital deaths of three infants
- Soldier suicide rates high on missions abroad
- Weekend warmth waves goodbye as cooler week begins
- German carmakers predict strong sales
- SPD wins Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania vote
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05 September
- Samsung withdraws tablet from fair after Apple complaints
- Air Berlin mulls in-flight dialect announcements after web sensation
- Performer plunges to death at Leipzig festival
- Taxi driver locks woman in boot after fare dispute
- Aid to Syria continues despite sanctions
- Friedrich: 1,000 potential terrorists in Germany
- World's slowest concert crawls to 10th anniversary
- 'Something is deeply wrong when the NPD is more successful than the FDP'
- Deutsche CEO attacks IMF over recapitalisation
- DAX tanks as investors fear global rout
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06 September
- Sustainable sushi: Looking for another fish in the sea
- Merkel lacks majority for euro bailout fund
- Second Hannover goalie battling depression
- Obama 'very pleased' with German role in Libya
- Elderly face growing risk of poverty, warns OECD
- Neo-Nazis gain foothold in rural villages
- Sex offender dies after self-immolation in front of court
- Arms dealer tied to CDU scandal gets retrial
- Last Bundeswehr goat gets his marching orders
- Commerzbank chief predicts more market turbulence
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07 September
- Germany labour to draw in Poland
- Markets await top court verdict on euro bailouts
- Foreign Ministry confirms deaths of aid workers
- Obama gets top feedback from Germans
- Discovering the Eifel on two wheels
- Euro bailouts legal but MPs need more say
- Monastery pays €700,000 to victims of abuse
- Another car arsonist arrested in Berlin
- Berlin has Europe’s cleanest air
- Eurozone avoids chaos, but debt crisis persists
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08 September
- Four abducted children found in Egypt
- Siemens pulls out of Bayreuth sponsorship
- One killed in bus crash on motorway
- Biotech benefits converting genetic engineering sceptics
- Infidelity agency ad invokes adulterers Schwarzenegger, Clinton, Seehofer
- Police thwart terror plot
- Schäuble pressures Greece to tackle debt
- Fewer people abroad learn German
- US ambassador laments ‘racist jerks’ in Germany
- Facebook signs up to voluntary privacy code
- What's on in Germany: September 8 - 14
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09 September
- Germany’s top ten tech inventions
- Sunny, warm weekend to offer summery respite
- Volkswagen and Porsche delay merger
- Earthquake shakes the Rhineland
- Hamburg looks back a decade after 9/11
- Merkel urges vigilance in face of terror threat
- EU commissioner proposes deterrents for deficit sinners
- Apple wins key iPad patent case against Samsung
- Dogs bite five people before being shot
- Chief ECB economist Jürgen Stark to resign
- Museum of Bavarian Kings opens its doors
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10 September
- Berlin suspects charged with planning terror attack
- 100 Germans involved in NATO Libya mission
- Germany sends 'Pina' to the Oscars
- Italy and Germany go to UN Court over Nazi reparations
- Schäuble tipped to be next Eurogroup chief
- Ballack left waiting for place against former team Chelsea
- BMW to develop electric car for Chinese market
- 11 September
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12 September
- Germany plans to buy Greek solar power
- Former Stasi workers to be banned from archive
- Heavy storms rage across Germany
- Suzuki kills partnership with Volkswagen
- Nowitzki unable to keep European basketball dream alive
- Train wrecked after hitting deer
- Berlin tries to calm markets riled by Greece
- Hollywood director Emmerich says mum won’t let him vote Green
- Eight-year-old Banksy work uncovered in Berlin
- Less Arctic ice than ever
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13 September
- MPs to boycott Pope's Bundestag speech
- Munich firm develops synthetic spider silk
- Obama calls for action to solve euro crisis
- Debate flares on protecting remains of Hitler's mountain retreat
- Classy glass from the past
- Father accused of raping daughter over 34 years
- GM wants Opel to challenge VW
- The morality of pope bashing
- OECD says Germany not producing enough skilled workers
- Motor show hopes to dispel global gloom
- 'Berlin is change, Berlin is the place to be'
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14 September
- Borussia take point from Arsenal in return to Champions League
- FDP defies Merkel with talk of Greek default
- Customers wasting billions on electricity
- Drinks maker granted trademark for German f-word obscenity
- Court says Lufthansa pilots can fly until they reach 65
- Social Democrats gain support amid euro crisis
- Fears grow of deadly tropical virus killing blackbirds
- Mercedes unveils its future vision
- Klaus Wowereit: the mayor Berliners deserve?
- Frankfurt shooter deep into jihad: prosecutors
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15 September
- Small cars aim to challenge foreign rivals
- Rumours fly that Berlusconi insulted Merkel's figure on phone
- Deutsche Telekom seeks to fight US snooping
- Merkel and Sarkozy back Greece as worries mount
- What's on in Germany: September 15 - 21
- Village denies ignoring incest family horrors
- 'It has more potential - Berlin can do more'
- Pfizer cutting hundreds of jobs
- ECB: Central banks boosting dollar liquidity
- Lost Friedrich der Große sex poem uncovered
- Berlin's Jewish Museum marks 10th anniversary
- Blackface Obama billboard sparks outrage
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16 September
- Schleswig-Holstein opens its doors to online gambling
- Schoolbooks distort Islam, study shows
- Hooligan violence raises football stadium worries
- Pope's visit sparks security lockdown
- Frankfurt Motor Show combines conservation and innovation
- Berliners look leftwards as Pirates set sail
- Mystery English-speaking boy emerges from forest
- Thunderstorms to chase away weekend warmth
- Turkish president urges integration, respect for Turks in Germany
- Merkel still optimistic about 2011 growth
- 17 September
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19 September
- More than 30 hurt in Hessian motorway pileup
- Doctors worry about rising exotic diseases
- Pirates shake up German political landscape
- Credit Suisse ends tax probe with €150 mln
- Can eurobonds solve Europe's debt crisis?
- Computerised car drives itself around Berlin
- 'The failure of the FDP is a further weakening of Merkel's coalition'
- Nearly three years jail for brutal metro attacker
- Nuclear phaseout to cost Germany €250 billion
- Rookie Pirate politicians dazzled by success
- Bulgaria sacks Matthäus for Euro 2012 failure
- Police to ask public about mystery forest boy
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20 September
- The Best of Berlin in September
- Google buys German bargain website
- Ship nearly sinks in Hamburg port
- Rommel's family complains about film profile plans
- Merkel and Obama talk eurozone, Mideast
- Pirate Party dreams of Bundestag booty
- Siemens said to move French bank cash to ECB
- Happiest Germans live in Hamburg
- Eastern business owners fear for future as young people leave
- Tropics project promises Bavarian bananas
- Around 50 injured in train crash in Saxony
- Fury as Munich keeps kids' fee from Passion Play performances
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21 September
- Techno trousers get smart enough to switch off chainsaw in emergency
- Germany to guarantee Brazilian nuclear plans
- Air Berlin to save €200 mln with reduced fleet
- Spammers abuse T-Online email accounts, blocking normal users
- Catholics demand reform ahead of pope visit
- Mozart motivates sewage treatment microbes
- Most Germans unhappy with squabbling government coalition
- Cabinet approves tax deal on money hidden in Switzerland
- Hugo Boss comes clean on Nazi past
- Oktoberfest buzzes with booze and merriment
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22 September
- 'I liked the Polish pope better'
- Lufthansa to fly less and with smaller planes
- Hundreds of Berlin votes found in a bin
- What's on in Germany: September 22 - 28
- Joy, protests and apathy await pope in Germany
- Beer inspectors allege Oktoberfest 'Maß' fraud
- Penis enlargement operations on the rise
- Indian summer sweetens warm weekend
- Starbucks aims to treble its cafes in Germany
- Police release paedophile suspect pictures in desperate appeal
- Burnout forces Rangnick to quit as Schalke coach
- Protesters rally as pope speaks to parliament
- Pope says Europe risking its cultural identity
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23 September
- Pope urges faith in Church at Berlin mass
- Germany, allies storm out on Ahmadinejad rant
- Man jailed for seven years for having sex with daughters
- Stuttgart 21 rail project costs expected to surge
- 'The MPs who didn't come have missed out'
- Most Germans oppose increased euro bail-out
- Germany rejects carbon dioxide storage plans
- Twittering tree nurtures online nature lovers
- Tobacco industry opposes greater warnings despite increased sales
- Pope pleases Muslims, disappoints Protestants
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24 September
- SPD and Greens see coalition hope in Berlin
- Police arrest man who shot at papal security officers
- Schäuble says Greece will need a decade to recover, criticises Italy
- Councils 'refuse to put emergency rescue services out to tender'
- Berlin police make arrest in hunt for car arsonist
- Abuse victims meeting leaves Pope 'shamed'
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25 September
- Merkel luke-warm on Putin's likely return
- Post-war intelligence service recruited mass-murdering Nazi
- Makau sets world record in Berlin marathon
- Bayern top brass come out in support of troubled defender Breno
- Investigators check possible NPD contacts to Oslo killer Breivik
- Oktoberfest visitor numbers stable but stealing more glasses
- Pope's final message - go back to basics
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26 September
- Eurozone to pour cash into stability fund
- Coalition hatches new minimum wage plan
- Another German tourist killed in Afghanistan
- De Maizière worried about army quitters
- Namibia reclaims stolen human skulls
- Latest economic index shows more gloom
- Reaping the benefits of Germany's seasonal mania
- Doctors go on series of two-hour strikes
- Nearly 600,000 addicted to internet
- Berlin suggests sending election observers to Russia
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27 September
- VW gets green light to acquire MAN
- Westerwelle repeats call for Mideast peace
- Authorities to keep tabs on Islamophobic scene
- Reopened embassy signals new era in German-Libyan relations
- Germans have almost €25,000 of federal debt each
- Germany’s triple-A rating under threat
- Government throws spanner in SPD/Green Berlin coalition talks
- Schröder unveils plan to better protect kids
- Court rejects Lehman investors' claims
- Greek PM promises 'success' in debt crisis
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28 September
- Bayern Munich outclass Manchester City
- State premier questions constitutional debt-brake
- Abuse victims say pope 'very upset' at meeting
- Man admits multi-million euro art forgery
- Dismantling nuke plants to cost €18 billion
- Survey shows Pirates sailing full speed ahead
- Heidi the cross-eyed opossum dead at three
- Textbook Indian summer to provide warmth through weekend
- Soldier denies killing comrade in prank
- 'Forest boy' rejects help to find out who he is
- War crimes witness found dead in Germany
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29 September
- Men convicted for radical internet posts
- Experts urge vaccinations as tick diseases increase
- Germany third most attractive for business, says survey
- What's on in Germany: September 29 - October 5
- Merkel faces major test in debt vote
- Unemployment reaches 20-year low
- Merkel's coalition holds, passes euro bailout
- Streaming video with the power of LEDs
- RTL reviewing security after Kurds storm studio
- Survey: Former East less trusting than former West
- Mirco's murderer sentenced to life
- Breno to stay in custody for time being
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30 September
- Police nab boxer driving 230 kilometres per hour
- Disgraced Guttenberg now at US think tank
- Designer creates clothes from milk
- Koch-Mehrin accused of skipping work
- Tracing the capital’s history by canoe
- Teachers don't want metro attacker in class
- 'Where's the money?'
- Hewlett Packard spends $13 million to fire CEO
- Bailout expansion clears final hurdle in Bundesrat
- Research institute predicts end of job boom