In Germany, the unemployment rate for March remained constant compared to February at 5.7%, amid an only gradual recovery, the Federal Employment Agency said on Friday.
The rate is 0.6 points above the same month last year, according to the agency's (...)
A bus driver, his relief driver and more than 20 people were injured when a bus hit a lorry on a motorway in the southern German state of Bavaria early Saturday.
The bus driver and his relief driver suffered serious injuries, police told dpa. More (...)
German unemployment fell in June, as the arrival of summer marked a pickup in hiring in Europe's biggest economy, bringing the jobless rate down to 5.5 per cent.
According to dpa, jobless queues in the nation contracted for the ninth consecutive (...)
German unemployment fell in May as the
arrival of summer weather marked a pick up in hiring in Europe's
biggest economy, bringing the jobless rate down to 5.6 per cent, dpa reported.
Jobless queues in the nation contracted for the eighth consecutive (...)
Title holder Kiki Bertens swept aside Czech qualifier Barbora Krejcikova 6-2, 6-1 Saturday to win her second consecutive Nuremberg Cup in a successful dress rehearsal for the French Open starting Sunday.
The Dutch world No. 19, who won the title (...)
Coloring books for grown-ups may be the new lifestyle craze, promising ways to combat stress, unleash our creative spirit and generally take time out from our increasingly tech-frazzled, gadget-obsessed lives. But for the makers of crayons and color (...)
AlQa'dah 16, 1436, Aug 31, 2015, SPA -- German companies have never needed more
workers, according to a report from the government's Federal
Employment Agency (BA) on Monday and quoted by dpa.
The number of available vacancies in Germany jumped (...)
A man suspected of having shot dead two people while driving a silver Mercedes convertible through the southern German town of Leutershausen was in police custody after a short search Friday.
According to police, the suspect fired multiple shots (...)
The number of unfilled jobs in Germany
rose to new heights Monday, as the Labour Office released data from a
new indicator, dpa reported.
Its BA-X jobs index rose to 191 for the month of June, two points
above its May levels and the highest figure (...)
Pictures presumed to have been the work of
a young Adolf Hitler have been sold at auction in Nuremberg for a
total of 391,000 euros (444,000 dollars), the auction house said on
Saturday, according to dpa.
Fourteen watercolour paintings and drawings (...)
A watercolour by former German dictator
Adolf Hitler was purchased for 130,000 euros (161,000 dollars) by an
anonymous buyer at an auction in Nuremberg Saturday, dpa reported.
The painting, along with the original bill of sale from 1916, is
titled (...)
Germany has bumped aside the United States
to become the world's top "nation brand," a market survey company
said Wednesday, dpa reported.
The United States had held the top spot for five years in the annual
Anholt-GfK Nation Brands Index, which (...)
The Nuremberg Toy Fair, the world's
biggest toy expo, opened Thursday in Germany with one of its focuses
on packaging boys' toys to make them more attractive to girls, according to dpa.
Within an hour of the opening, the city's exhibition (...)
Icebreakers have abandoned efforts to keep open a key European inland waterway connecting the Black Sea and the North Sea after persistent ice blocked a canal in Germany, officials in Nuremberg said Sunday.
According to dpa, the 171-kilometre canal (...)
German consumer confidence is expected to dip further next month over fears of unemployment, a key survey
released today showed, but the chief pollster said this should
not be interpreted as a foreboding of disaster, according to dpa.
The (...)
The discovery of the body of an alleged German
victim of Argentina"s 1976 putsch man has forced the reopening of an
investigation into former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, a
court spokesman in the town of Nuremberg said on Wednesday, (...)
David Haye won the WBA heavyweight championship in surprising Nikolai Valuev by a majority decision Saturday.
The brash British boxer used his superior quickness against the huge Russian, who came close to being knocked down for the first time in (...)
The German employment agency will need to plug
a funding hole of 16 billion euros (24 billion dollars) in 2010, an
agency spokeswoman said on Saturday, confirming a media report, , according to dpa.
Job losses resulting from the economic crisis (...)
A manufacturing plant operated by Airbus in Laupheim will be sold to Germany's Diehl Aerosystems and France's Thales SA, AP quoted officials as saying Friday.
Herbert Wust, whose Diehl Foundation is part of a joint venture with Thales, said the (...)
Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU)
opened a two-day party congress in Nuremberg Friday locked in a tax
dispute with its Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ally two months
ahead of elections in Germany's largest state, according to dpa.
CSU (...)
At the Nuremberg Toy Fair next week,
the world toy industry will be seeking to move on after the crisis
last year over Chinese-made toys tainted with toxic substances,
according to an industry expert on Thursday, according to dpa.
Werner Lenzner (...)
A female polar bear cub that has become
Germany's latest animal attraction has been named Flake, officials
in the southern city of Nuremberg said, according to dpa.
Some 25,000 suggestions poured in to the town hall after a
competition was (...)
Three water-birds found dead in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg were infected with a strain of bird flu that can be lethal to humans, health officials said Sunday.
Local authorities established a four-kilometres exclusion zone around two lakes where (...)
Anne Faika's company
operates 14 markets a week selling organic food in the German
city of Hamburg, after starting in 1990 with one market, REPORTED REUTERS.
She is in the front line of a global industry which achieved
sales of about $39 billion (...)
LATE GOALS FROM PETER CROUCH AND STEVEN GERRARD WERE A DESERVED REWARD FOR THE PRESSURE ENGLAND EXERTED IN THURSDAY'S 2-0 WORLD CUP WIN OVER TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, ACCORDING TO REUTERS.
ENGLAND STRUGGLED TO GET ANOTHER GROUP B VICTORY THAT PUT THEM (...)