Leipzig: Germany worked hard for a 2-0 win over Israel in a Euro 2012 warm-up match on Thursday with Mario Gomez and Andre Schuerrle on target in their final test before next month's tournament. The three-time European champions, among the title favourites, dominated with a performance that was a marked improvement on their 5-3 defeat by Switzerland on Saturday. However, they wasted close to a dozen clear chances on a...
09:16 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Frankfurt: Brazil-born striker Cacau was dropped from Germany's squad for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine on Monday. Cacau struggled in his Bundesliga club Stuttgart and was mostly coming off the bench during the season. He was in the Germany squad at the World Cup in South Africa two years ago. "It was my great goal to be able to play at the Europeans after being at the World...
02:49 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Works of noted subcontinental Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, globally recognised as one who believed in social reform and devoted his poetry to the uplift of humanity, has now been translated into German. A bilingual Urdu-German book of Faiz's poems has been launched by the Goethe Institut in Karachi, Dawn News reported. The poems titled "Jab teri samandar ankhon mein" have been translated into German by the institute's former...
02:16 PM, May 28, 2012
Basel, Switzerland: Germany suffered for resting their Bayern Munich players as Switzerland forward Eren Derdiyok scored a hat-trick in a wild 5-3 victory over the European Championship contenders in a friendly on Saturday. Derdiyok exploited unusual disarray in the German defence to convert assists from the outstanding Tranquillo Barnetta in the 21st, 23rd and 49th minutes. Defender Stephan Lichtsteiner and midfielder Admir Mehmedi added goals in the 67th and 74th...
09:28 AM, May 27, 2012
Berlin: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022....
07:18 AM, May 27, 2012
London: A 16-year-old Indian origin schoolboy in Germany has managed to crack puzzles that baffled the world of maths for more than 350 years, it was reported in London Saturday. Shouryya Ray, from Dresden, has been hailed a genius after working out the problems set by Sir Isaac Newton. Ray solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using powerful computers, Daily...
10:17 PM, May 26, 2012
Munich: Bayern Munich's dramatic downfall in the Champions League final is unlikely to have a long-term influence on Germany's biggest club, although it could have a negative impact on Germany's hopes of winning the upcoming European Championship. Bayern's young squad was good enough to eliminate Real Madrid in the semi-finals and largely dominate Chelsea on Saturday before losing on penalties. Time will eventually heal those wounds. But more immediately, eight...
04:22 AM, May 21, 2012
Manchester: Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa has spoken to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and would like to move to an English Premier League club, the Japanese international said on Wednesday. "It was good to meet and actually talk to him. He had some nice things to say to me," the 23-year-old told reporters. Kagawa has been widely linked with a seven-million-Pound transfer to the Premier League runners-up by British...
05:19 AM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh has said that the Indian hockey team are keen to play more on the blue turf to get adjusted to it ahead of the London Games, as they failed to adapt to the surface during the Olympic hockey test event in London recently. After losing all their matches against world champions Australia, Olympic champions Germany and hosts Great Britain during the Olympic test event, India...
06:04 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
Berlin: Schalke 04's teenage midfielder Julian Draxler won a surprise callup on Monday to Germany's preliminary 27-man squad for Euro 2012 next month. The uncapped 19-year-old made his Bundesliga debut just over a year ago and has been in sparkling form this season, helping Schalke clinch a third-place finish. Coach Joachim Loew said the final squad would be announced later this month, adding there would be some changes. Germany's players...
07:20 PM, May 07, 2012
London: Indian men's hockey team ended its London tour without a win as they lost the bronze medal match 1-2 to Great Britain in the four-nation test event ahead of the upcoming London Olympics, in London on Sunday. It was India, who scored the first goal through in the minute but the hosts rallied to beat the visitors. V Raghunath had put ahead in the first half through a brilliant...
10:39 PM, May 06, 2012
London: Champions League finalists Chelsea have agreed to sign Germany midfielder Marko Marin from Werder Bremen at the end of the season when the summer transfer window opens. The west London club said on Saturday that they have agreed to a fee for the 23-year-old playmaker and that Marin has agreed to personal terms. However, Chelsea did not say how much they would pay for the player who was linked...
08:09 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Berlin: From a stuttering start to the season, Borussia Dortmund retained the Bundesliga title with two rounds to go by beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 on Saturday. Ivan Perisic scored in the 23rd minute and Shinji Kagawa in the 59th to launch the celebrations for Dortmund's eighth German league championship. "There are no words to describe what the lads have done," Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp said as his side sealed the...
09:07 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Berlin: Schalke 04 forward Raul is to leave at the end of the season when his contract expires, the Bundesliga club said on Thursday. The 34-year-old has been at the Gelsenkirchen club for two seasons, scoring 27 Bundesliga goals in 63 matches. Schalke had made the former Real Madrid and Spain captain an offer to stay, but the club said that he has decided to leave. "He will explain his...
11:53 AM, Apr 21, 2012
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