Authorities evacuated a shopping centre in the northern German city of Bremen Wednesday over concerns about an escaped psychiatric patient but said the incident was unrelated to terrorism, according to dpa.
Police said the 19-year-old man (...)
The six astronauts on the International
Space Station can look forward to fresh clothes and replenished
toothpaste supplies with the launch Friday of a European supply ship, according to dpa.
The Edoardo Amaldi, launched on an Ariane 5 rocket (...)
This year's summer melt of ice in the Arctic Sea has set a new record, with ice cover shrinking to just 4.24 million square kilometres, scientists at the University of Bremen said Friday according to dpa.
The data undercut the previous record - (...)
Wayne Rooney scored to give Manchester United a 1-0 win over Birmingham City at the start of its bid for a fourth consecutive Premier League title but Liverpool lost 2-1 at Tottenham Hotspur Sunday.
North-west rivals United and Liverpool slugged it (...)
Space scientists set out plans today for a German mission to the moon, with a robotic lander touching down by 2018 at the latest and space "trucks" beginning regular landings two years later, according to dpa.
Peter Kyr, who heads the team of (...)
A drug addict who beat and neglected a 2-
year-old boy was jailed Thursday for 10 years by a court in Bremen,
two years after the boy's broken body was found in a refrigerator, according to dpa.
Kevin, as he was named in the German media, was (...)
In the first-ever docking by a European
spacecraft in orbit, an expendable "space truck" named the "Jules
Verne" made contact with the International Space Station (ISS) on
Thursday, according to dpa.
A live telecast to the ground showed how (...)
European Union foreign ministers on Saturday expressed support for the Arab peace initiative the Riyadh summit has decided to reactivate.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation (...)
European Union foreign ministers Friday
failed to rally around a United Nations proposal for supervised
independence for Kosovo despite German efforts to secure support for
the plan, EU diplomats said, according to dpa.
"This means that the EU (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on
the international community Monday to take more effective measures to
combat the spread of AIDS, according to dpa.
The struggle against the disease was "a task for all of mankind"
and should not be (...)
