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manufacturing

Adidas to bring production home with robot shoe factory

Adidas, the German maker of sportswear and equipment, announced Tuesday that it will start marketing its first series of sportshoes manufactured by robots in Germany from 2017.

Economy

Germans set to spend €273 on Christmas gifts

The average German will spend €273 on Christmas presents this year - €43 more than last year, according to a new survey.

Energy

Electricity grossly overpriced, study finds

Electricity customers will be forced to pay up to €2 billion too much for their power next year, a study commissioned by the environmentalist Greens party has found.

Internet

Aigner unfriends Facebook

German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner said Thursday she was deleting her Facebook account in protest because the social networking site's new privacy settings announced last week do not go far enough.

Internet

Consumer group urges users to ditch Facebook

Anti-Facebook feelings in Germany grew Wednesday as a major consumer group urged people to abandon the social networking website unless it scraps planned changes to its privacy policy.

Sex

German officials back 'morning-after' pill without prescription

Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) advocated on Friday that the so-called 'morning-after' pill be offered without a doctor’s prescription.

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Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapse

Three months after the collapse of Cologne’s city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.