Berlin - Police used water cannon and made 70 arrests Saturday as they struggled to keep 700 neo-Nazis and even more leftists apart on the streets of Berlin.
The rightists had earlier announced a march through the capital's Lichtenberg district.
Mainly leftist opponents, determined not to let them pass, sat down on the road. Volleys of stones were thrown towards the neo- Nazis, who replied by hurling beer bottles in the other direction, witnesses said.
Hamburg - Bayer Leverkusen regrouped on Saturday to win 3-1 at Borussia Moenchengladbach to remain in touch with Bundesliga leaders TSG Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich.
Stefan Kiessling struck twice and fed Patrick Helmes for the other for Leverkusen, who are unbeaten against Moenchengladbach in 23 matches since a last defeat in 1994.
Leverkusen now have 31 points, moving into third place ahead of Hertha Berlin, who remain on 30 after losing 1-0 at beleaguered Schalke 04 thanks to a goal from from Gerald Asamoah. Hoffenheim and Munich lead the way with 34 points each after Munich won their table- topper 2-1 on Friday.
Munich - If al-Qaeda terrorists sell their stories for money, the income should be seized to benefit victims' families, according to a petition sent to Germany's parliament.
The news magazine Focus said Saturday the petition was in the name of the 52 members of the German Alliance on Capital Crimes, which represents relatives of victims.
They lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and other Islamist attacks in Djerba and Bali, as well as in a 1975 attack in Stockholm by the far-left German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction.
Aachen, Germany - Andrea Riccardi, the Catholic layman who founded the Sant'Egidio Community in Rome, was picked Saturday as the winner of the prestigious Charlemagne Prize in Germany.
The civic prize, to be handed over next year in the western city of Aachen, honours his services to Europe.
Riccardi founded the community with other lay people at the parish church of Sant'Egidio in Rome 40 years ago.
In addition to prayer and charity, it has actively mediated between enemies in an effort to bring peace to nations such as Iraq.
Hamburg - The fairy tales are over for German football as national team manager Oliver Bierhoff urged hard work for future success in an interview published on Saturday.
"We must realize that the summer fairy tale, and the summer fairy tale 'reloaded' - if you want to give Euro 2008 this name - is over ... We must be down to earth again," Bierhoff told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Frankfurt - Deutsche Boerse, the company that runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, is in merger talks with the New York Stock Exchange company, the news magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday.
NYSE Euronext of Wall Street is the world's biggest operator of financial markets.
A spokesman for Deutsche Boerse declined comment on the Spiegel report that its chief executive, Reto Francioni, presented a report last week to his executive board on a possible merger.
Berlin - Police used water cannon and made 70 arrests Saturday as they struggled to keep 700 neo-Nazis and even more leftists apart on the streets of Berlin.
Munich - If al-Qaeda terrorists sell their stories for money, the income should be seized to benefit victims' families, according to a petition sent to Germany's parliament.
Aachen, Germany - Andrea Riccardi, the Catholic layman who founded the Sant'Egidio Community in Rome, was picked Saturday as the winner of the prestigious Charlemagne Prize in Germany.
Hamburg - The fairy tales are over for German football as national team manager Oliver Bierhoff urged hard work for future success in an interview published on Saturday.
Frankfurt - Deutsche Boerse, the company that runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, is in merger talks with the New York Stock Exchange company, the news magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday.
