Munich - Bayern Munich must win the Bundesliga title and strengthen its squad, coach Juergen Klinsmann said on Wednesday in the wake of his team's Champions League quarter-final exit against Barcelona.

Confronted with "Klinsmann out" chants from the fans in the return leg against the Spanish league leaders the previous night, Klinsmann acknowledged that every coach is measured by success.

Berlin - The German government hoped Wednesday for a swift decision on the fate of alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, hours after a last-minute US court ruling temporarily blocked his deportation to Germany.

A spokesman for the German justice ministry said Wednesday they were prepared for an imminent decision, although they had "no updated information" over the internal US deportation process, which he said Germany was not involved in.

Hamburg  - Hertha Berlin striker Andrey Voronin was banned for three Bundesliga matches and fined 10,000 euros (13,300 dollars) by the ruling body DFB on Wednesday over a red-card offence.

Voronin lost his temper in the 89th minute of Hertha's 2-0 league defeat at Hanover 96 on Saturday. He was dismissed for a foul on Hanover Leon Andreasen and then kicked the ball at Andreasen in disgust about the red card.

London, Apr 15 : A collection of Nazi women’s magazines featuring knitting patterns, fashion advice, and at the same time blaming the British for WWII are set to be auctioned.

The Frauen Warte, literally translated as Women Wait, had been designed for German housewives.

However, on closer inspection, they were discovered to contain a more sinister purpose.

The magazines featured a number of celebrities, including leading Nazi Hermann Goering, and had stories on home economics and fashion news mixed with those about Britain''s culpability in the devastating conflict.

Berlin  - Europe's biggest economy, Germany will shrink by 4.9 per cent this year, one of the nation's leading economic research groups predicted Wednesday.

Dragging down German economic growth will be a 12.9 per cent slump in exports, the Berlin-based DIW economic think tank said. Exports are a key pillar of growth in Germany, which is the world's leading export nation.

Frankfurt - Despite signs of cautious economic optimism emerging around the world, German chemicals giant BASF AG said Wednesday it saw no signs that the global crisis was easing, and announced moves to place up to 3,000 employees on shorter work weeks.

"We have to make adjustments," said BASF personnel chief, Harald Schwager. "An end to the global crisis is still not in sight."