Bochum, Germany  - Before downloading an advance version of Internet Explorer 8, computer users should make sure the offer really comes from Microsoft and not from a hacker.

Bochum, Germany - Werder Bremen's sporting director Klaus Allofs has said that Italian Serie A club Juventus has not made an offer for the Bundesliga club's Brazilian midfielder Diego.

Bochum, Germany - German prosecutors on Friday charged former Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel with tax evasion in connection with funds salted away in the Alpine principality of Liechtenstein.

Zumwinkel, 64, was detained in February after prosecutors obtained evidence from Germany's BND foreign intelligence service on trusts managed by the Liechtenstein Bank LTG on behalf of wealthy tax-shy Europeans.

Bochum, Germany  - Germany launched Friday a series of trials of tax dodgers whose hidden riches in the Alpine principality of Liechtenstein were exposed when a bank executive betrayed the secret.