Babette’s errant email cripples German parliament (Reuters)
Reuters – The German parliament’s email system was hampered for several hours for more than 4,000 staffers and deputies when hundreds of workers responded to an errant email sent by one staffer named “Babette” to all 4,032 co-workers.
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Babette’s errant email cripples German parliament
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Revealed: Famous names who snubbed UK queen’s honors (Reuters)
Reuters – Receiving an honor from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth marks the pinnacle of many careers. But for more than 250 people named in a once-secret official document, the idea was so unappealing that they turned down the monarch’s offer.
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Revealed: Famous names who snubbed UK queen’s honors
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Woman gets cold cash rather than cold cuts (Reuters)
Reuters – A butcher shop employee in the German town of Braunschweig inadvertently handed a customer a bag containing more than 2,000 euros ($2,835) in cold cash rather than the cold cuts she usually gets.
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German fashion designer makes clothes from milk (Reuters)
Reuters – A young fashion designer from the German city of Hanover is revolutionizing high fashion by designing clothes with a staple she can find in her fridge — milk.
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Baby, you can park my car (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom – For those of us who are parallel-parking challenged, and can’t afford to shell out $70,000 clams for a car that can park itself, maybe you can give Ronny Wechselberger a call. In April, the German driver set a Guinness World …
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Tarantula fright at rail station (Reuters)
Reuters – A tarantula gave officials at Berlin’s crowded Ostbahnhof rail station a scare when it crawled out of a bag left on a train, police said on Thursday.
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Germany’s "El Diablo" makes royal wedding rickshaw (Reuters)
Reuters – An eccentric German bicycle designer known as “El Diablo” to cycling fans has unveiled his newest creation — a royal rickshaw just in time for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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Germany’s "El Diablo" makes royal wedding rickshaw
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Nazi warplane lying off Kent coast is intact (Reuters)
Reuters – A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a museum wants to raise it.
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German rich list survives court privacy challenge (Reuters)
Reuters – A German millionaire’s complaint that publishing his net worth on a magazine’s rich list was an invasion of privacy has been dismissed by a judge on grounds of public interest, the court said on Friday.
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When pigs fly…well their frozen knuckles anyway (Reuters)
Reuters – The police joked he’d caught lunch and the autobody repairman will be glad of the business, but a German driver was shaken up when a frozen pig’s knuckle collided with his car on the high speed autobahn.
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When pigs fly…well their frozen knuckles anyway
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