Tehran: Iran is ready to revive talks with the US and other world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, but suggested that Tehran's foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate. Iran's insistence that it will never give up uranium enrichment - the process that makes material for reactors as well as weapons - scuttled negotiations a year ago and still looms as...
01:02 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mumbai: Over a 100 orchestra musicians performed live on AR Rahman's composition here Thursday as part of 'Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities'. The concert to be held Friday is titled The Classic Incantations, where a well known German film orchestra Babelsberg will perform with Rahman on his film score. As the orchestra doled out a two-and-a-half minute piece on Latika's Theme from 'Slumdog Millionaire' that won Rahman two Academy...
01:03 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New York: Countering allegations that he is 'aloof', US President Barack Obama counted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel among leaders with whom he has forged 'friendships and bonds of trust'. "I wasn't in other administrations, so I didn't see the interactions between US Presidents and various world leaders. But the friendships and the bonds of trust that I've been able to forge with a whole range...
10:48 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: India has been ranked the sixth most "innovative" country in the world in multinational conglomerate GE's Annual Global Innovation Barometer, driven by financial support from public authorities and long-term support from investors. The report, based on a survey of 2,800 senior business executives in 22 countries, including 200 respondents in India, identifies the top enablers for innovation in the country as talent ('creative' talent and people with technical...
12:38 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Athens: Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine euro zone countries, stripping France and Austria of their coveted triple-A status but not EU paymaster Germany, in a Black Friday the 13th for the troubled single currency area. "Today's rating actions are primarily driven by our assessment that the policy initiatives that have been taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic...
07:45 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Business is booming in one Germany town which produces traditional Christmas decorations. ...
08:50 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Brussels: European Union leaders sealed a new fiscal pact ensuring tougher budget discipline but failed to agree on a treaty change to enshrine the rules, meaning a deal may now involve the 17 euro zone nations plus any others that want to join, diplomats said. An agreement involving all 27 EU members fell through - raising the prospect of a two-speed Europe - after British Prime Minister David Cameron demanded...
11:34 AM, Dec 09, 2011
At the two day summit in Brussels, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called for treaty changes including tighter budgetary rules and deficit caps. ...
07:56 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Brussels: European leaders are wrestling over how much of their sovereignty they are willing to give up in a desperate attempt to save the ambitious project of continental unity that grew from the ashes of World War II. At stake at the summit in Brussels, which began on Thursday evening, is not only the future of the euro, but also the stability of the global financial system and the balance...
07:46 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama had a telephonic talk with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel as European leaders prepared to meet again to hammer out an agreement to resolve the Eurozone crisis that threatens to engulf other parts of the globe. Obama and Merkel spoke this afternoon, continuing their ongoing consultations on the financial situation in the Eurozone, the White House said in a statement. "As before, the President expressed...
09:53 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Berlin: A massive British World War II-era bomb that triggered the evacuation of about half of the 107,000 residents of Germany's western city of Koblenz was successfully defused on Sunday, authorities said. It was one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended with some 2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics on duty across the city to secure the operation. Experts successfully defused the British 1.8 ton bomb and...
12:51 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Berlin: Every country in the euro zone needs to set up a special national fund for sovereign debt that is more than 60 per cent of gross domestic product, Germany's finance minister told a newspaper. Wolfgang Schaeuble, detailing a proposal he will make at a European Union summit on December 9, told the Passauer Neue Presse that a total of 500 billion euros ($672 billion) would need to go into...
09:59 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Berlin: Pakistan has officially withdrawn from an international conference on Afghanistan, Germany's foreign ministry said on Friday, saying that it regretted the boycott. Pakistan said on Tuesday it planned to pull out of the meeting in reaction to a cross-border attack by NATO that killed 24 of its soldiers and plunged US-Pakistani relations deeper into crisis. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told her German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in a...
01:50 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Berlin: A German court ruled on Wednesday that a Muslim student in Berlin cannot pray in the corridor of his high school even outside lesson time as it would disrupt the school. Germany's Federal Administrative Court said in a statement its ruling applied only to this particular instance and took into account special circumstances at the school. German media reported there were pupils belonging to five different faiths and different...
01:46 AM, Dec 01, 2011
London: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler enjoyed drinking at a British pub when he visited the country at the age of 23, according to a new TV documentary. Hitler came to Britain in 1912 to stay with half-brother Alois, who lived in Toxteth, Liverpool. During his five months stay there, researchers on BBC's "Inside Out" programme found that the Fuhrer, whose bombs would devastate the country in World War-II, visited London...
07:17 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Paris: The leaders of France and Germany will voice their support for new Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti at a tripartite meeting on Thursday, seeking to stem the risk of the debt crisis gripping the heart of the euro zone. The talks hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the eastern city of Strasbourg are due to discuss the reforms planned by former EU commissioner Monti to restore confidence in...
08:48 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Cologne: A referee in Germany's top league was found bleeding in his hotel bathtub on Saturday hours before he was to work the game between Cologne and Mainz, in what police suspect was a suicide attempt. Babak Rafati was in stable condition but will need "intensive treatment" and be hospitalized for some time, German Football Federation President Theo Zwanziger said. Rafati had been scheduled to officiate the Cologne-Mainz game, which...
07:25 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Pius Heinz of Germany poses with stacks of cash after beating Martin Staszko of the Czech Republic to win the championship bracelet and $ 8.7 million in prize money during the World Series of Poker main event at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 9, 2011. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus ...
02:25 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Pierced Man', Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses in front of the camera. Bucholz has 453 piercings on his body. The picture is taken in Dortmund, October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender ...
03:05 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama faces the delicate task of pushing European leaders to solve their debt crisis without appearing to lecture them at a summit of world economic powers this week. Obama headed to France on Wednesday to urge Europe to fix the long-running crisis that could send the already weak US economy into another recession. The White House, which says Europe can solve the crisis on its own,...
09:33 AM, Nov 03, 2011
