Dortmund, Germany - German prosecutors are studying war crimes allegations against an 89-year-old man alleged to have massacred an estimated 60 Jewish prisoners in Austria near the end of the Second World War, they said Thursday.
An Austrian university student interested in the March 29, 1945 atrocity knew the names of a trio of Waffen SS members said to have gunned down the group of Hungarian Jewish slave labourers.
The student located the 89-year-old by simply looking up his name in a German telephone directory. The student's professor, Walter Manoschek, then conducted a series of interviews with the man.
Berlin - Germany expects tough negotiations at next week's European Union summit when leaders meet to decide on a climate package and measures to combat the global financial crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday.
Addressing the lower house of parliament, Merkel said the proposals by the EU Commission for a 200-billion-euro (252 billion dollars) stimulus package were "in the right direction."
She told the Bundestag that Germany had already undertaken its own measures and would review the situation at the beginning of next year.
Beijing - Electronics company Siemens said Thursday its sales and new orders in China grew by 19 per cent each - twice the growth rate of the country's economy.
Richard Hausmann, head of the Germany-based conglomerate's China subsidiary, told journalists in Beijing that sales surged to 57 billion yuan (8.3 billion dollars) and new orders to 65.5 billion yuan in the business year through September 2008.
"In face of a global economic downturn I am glad that the results of our China operations again contribute significantly to our global performance," he said.
"Such figures are even more remarkable given the fact that in 2008 Siemens underwent one of the largest reorganizations in the history of the company."
Essen, Germany - No room, no apartment or house can get by without light switches and although everyone needs them and uses them, these inconspicuous devices have been reduced to their simplest function for decades.
Now designers and manufacturers are discovering that all kinds of living spaces can be perked up by replacing the self-effacing rectangular plates of cream or white plastic with something more decorative.
Dortmund, Germany - German prosecutors are studying war crimes allegations against an 89-year-old man alleged to have massacred an estimated 60 Jewish prisoners in Austria near the end of the Second World War, they said Thursday.
Berlin - Germany expects tough negotiations at next week's European Union summit when leaders meet to decide on a climate package and measures to combat the global financial crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday.
Essen, Germany - No room, no apartment or house can get by without light switches and although everyone needs them and uses them, these inconspicuous devices have been reduced to their simplest function for decades.
