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
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
Kabul: The Afghan Foreign Ministry on Monday blamed Pakistan after a series of daily Taliban attacks in Kabul's diplomatic area killed 9 civilians and 14 police officers. Nearly 32 militants were killed in the attack. An 18-hour gunbattle in the heart of Kabul's high security diplomatic zone ended on Monday morning and the militants demonstrated once again their ability to infiltrate into the heavily guarded diplomatic area with arms and...
09:44 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Railways on Tuesday said it will shortly finalise a fresh Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its German counterpart on increasing their cooperation. "India and Germany have a strong cooperation in the field of railway transport," said Union Railways Minister Mukul Roy after meeting a high-level delegation led by German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development Peter Ramsauer. The two railways had an MoU for...
02:21 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Geneva: Officials in Switzerland have proposed changes to a tax accord with Germany in a race to get it approved in Berlin in the coming days so that it can come into force this year. A spokesman for the Swiss Federal Finance Department says accepting the proposals could allow the two sides to amend an existing treaty and end a long-running dispute over tax evasion. Roland Meier told the Associated...
08:49 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Frankfurt: Deutsche Bank's co-chief executive designate Anshu Jain saw his total pay drop 18 per cent last year to almost 10 million euros, less than some of his peers and top earners in the car industry. Jain earned 9.77 million euros in 2011, when the lender missed its ambitious full-year profit targets, compared with 11.9 million a year earlier, Germany's flagship bank said in its annual report on Tuesday. Jain's...
10:44 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when some NGOs are under surveillance for allegedly routing foreign funds to fuel unrest in India, government records show that nearly 22,000 voluntary groups have received Rs 10,000 crore donations from abroad for social service during 2009-10. Of these NGOs, 3,218 belong to Tamil Nadu which together received Rs 1663.31 crore as contribution from abroad, mostly the US, the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands....
10:34 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel scraped through a parliamentary vote endorsing a second bailout for Greece on Monday but faced a growing backbench revolt against pouring in more money in support of the euro zone. The comfortable 496-90 victory, with five abstentions, was inflated by centre-left opposition support, but only 304 of Merkel's 330 centre-right coalition lawmakers backed the motion. Seventeen coalition rebels voted "No" this time, compared to 13...
12:20 AM, Feb 28, 2012
Berlin: Germany's president resigned on Friday in a scandal over favors he allegedly received before becoming head of state, and Chancellor Angela Merkel moved quickly to try and head off a domestic political crisis as she grapples with Europe's debt troubles. Christian Wulff, who was Merkel's candidate for the presidency when elected less than two years ago, quit after two months of allegations he received favors such as a favorable...
08:13 AM, Feb 18, 2012
London: German dictator Adolf Hitler managed to plant a Nazi agent in British spy agency MI5 during the initial years of the Second World War, but failed to utilise him, de-classified documents have revealed. According to the documents, Dutchman Folkert Arie van Koutrik was the first German agent ever to infiltrate MI5 when he was employed by them in 1940. Koutrik had already worked for Abwehr, the German secret service,...
07:59 AM, Feb 18, 2012
USA The US, ranked number one, has always been a leader in innovation. However, after the recession, innovation has taken a backseat in the USA. This could possibly hamper job creation. India India, ranked sixth, is one level higher than the UK in innovation. Its most innovative sectors are energy, healthcare, telecommunications, and fast moving consumer goods. China China is the fourth most innovative country and the second largest investor...
12:18 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Davos: The ice appeared to be melting over tackling euro crisis at the Swiss alpine resort with the leaders of several European nations agreeing to press for tighter rules and greater fiscal prudence to keep the common currency afloat. The urgency to introduce fiscal discipline and hope that the euro crisis would be resolved sooner than later was expressed by leaders of various smaller European countries at the meeting of...
05:24 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New York: India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, collectively known as the G4 group of countries, have made a joint bid for the expansion of the UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of membership. Each of these countries aspires to be a permanent member of the United Nations and play a larger global role. They made the joint bid at the informal plenary of the intergovernmental negotiations...
05:11 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a German court has ruled against it in a patent suit with Apple Inc over mobile technology, the latest verdict in an intensifying global legal battle between the two technology giants. The ruling by the court in Mannheim covered one of three patents Samsung claimed Apple violated and follows Samsung's defeat last week. The court will decide on the third patent...
02:54 PM, Jan 27, 2012
