Warin, Germany - A fire gutted part of a homeless shelter near G

Berlin - A rare vintage car, dating back to the early days of the automobile, has been discovered in eastern Europe and has returned to Berlin where it was built almost a century ago. The G2, which is being offered for sale by Car Classics Berlin, was built in 1913 by PROTOS, a subsidiary of Siemens, and is probably only one of three such cars still around.

"The history of this car is simply amazing. It survived two world wars and has since hardly been driven," says automobile historian Burkhard Steins from Car Classics Berlin.

Ingolstadt, Germany - Audi has added another variant to the A4 model range with the Allroad Quattro which will be available in European showrooms from May with prices starting in Germany at 37,100 euros (49,930 dollars). Compared to the A4 Avant, the all road Quattro version is larger and measures 4.72 metres in length and 1.84 metres in width. At a height of 1.50 metres, it is also taller than its A4 Avant sibling.

Munich - The Chinese Brilliance BS4, like its big brother the BS6, has been poorly rated in terms of safety in a crash test conducted by the German automobile association ADAC. The BS4 medium-sized sedan is a big improvement on the BS6, "But is still a long way from achieving a good result (in safety)," ADAC said. The BS6 car was slated for it poor crash test results in an earlier crash test.

Washington - US federal agents took an accused Nazi war criminal into custody on Tuesday for his pending deportation to Germany on charges connected to his time as a guard at a concentration camp. The agents removed John Demjanjuk, 89, from his suburban Cleveland home in the state of Ohio. Contacted by telephone, Demjanjuk's lawyer, John Broadley, could not confirm when his client will arrive in Germany.

Karlsruhe, Germany - German investigators are checking out a hostile, German-language, Islamist video which recently appeared on a Central Asian website, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe confirmed Tuesday. The 25-minute video appeared to have been made by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The German speakers in the video were thought to be two brothers of Moroccan extraction who grew up in Bonn and hold German citizenship, the Spiegel news website said.