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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German rich list survives court privacy challenge
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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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Ex-priest charged in collection cash theft (Reuters)
Reuters – A retired German priest has been charged with 50 counts of fraud over the theft of 1 million euros’ ($1.4 million) worth of church donations, state prosecutors in Wuerzburg said Tuesday.
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"Dangerous schizophrenic" escapee teaches (Reuters)
Reuters – A mentally ill man from Northern Ireland who once stabbed a work colleague in the neck was hired by a secondary school in France and taught German for nearly a month before his past caught up with him.
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Mystery WWII photos launch German war crimes probe (Reuters)
Reuters – German prosecutors have begun an investigation into suspected war crimes on the Eastern Front after an unknown person handed in an envelope containing a trove of previously unseen World War Two photographs.
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Mystery WWII photos launch German war crimes probe
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In parliament, the ties have it (Reuters)
Reuters – A left-wing member of German parliament disciplined for refusing to wear a neck-tie defended himself on Friday by saying most of his constituents don’t wear ties either.
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In parliament, the ties have it
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Man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas (Reuters)
Reuters – A German national who shipped hundreds of live tarantulas into the United States through the mail has pleaded guilty to a federal smuggling charge, prosecutors said.
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Man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas
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German man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas to U.S (Reuters)
Reuters – A German national who shipped hundreds of live tarantulas into the United States through the mail has pleaded guilty to a federal smuggling charge, prosecutors said.
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German towns head to court over naming rights (Reuters)
Reuters – Two German towns that straddle the former Iron Curtain are locked in a dispute over their nearly identical names.
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German towns head to court over naming rights
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