Mainz (Germany), Jan 12 -Herta Mueller, winner of the latest Nobel Prize for Literature, called on Germany Monday to find and prosecute former agents of Romania's Securitate communist secret police.

In remarks to ARD public television to be aired Monday evening, the Romanian-born, German-language novelist said large numbers of ex-agents had resettled in Germany after communism ended in Romania 20 years ago.

Mainz (Germany), Dec 7: German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for movement by India and China at the world climate summit.

Speaking in a special news broadcast on Germany's ZDF public television, she said big emerging economies had not offered enough.

"India and China in particular must offer more," she said, noting that the US had already accepted the objective of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.

Mainz, Germany - Mainz 05 striker Aristide Bance is under police investigation for attacking a woman on the training ground of the Bundesliga club.

A police spokesman said that the Burkina Faso player Bance, 24, hit the woman on Monday during an argument.

The spokesman said that there were a number of witnesses of the incident, including several reporters as it occurred shortly after Mainz officially presented their new coach Thomas Tuchel.

Mainz officials and the investigating prosecutor did not want to comment. (dpa)

Mainz, Germany - Mainz 05 fired coach Joern Andersen on Monday, less than a week before the start of the Bundesliga season, and replaced him with Thomas Tuchel.

Andersen got his marching orders after a weekend first-round cup defeat at fourth division club Luebeck and criticism from players on his training methods.

The Norwegian Andersen was appointed in July 2008 and took Mainz back from the second division into the Bundesliga.

Tuchel, 35, led Mainz' under-19 team to the national title last season. He makes his top flight debut in Saturday's season-opener against Bayer Leverkusen. (dpa)

Mainz, Germany - Pope Benedict XVI has removed a paedophile German priest from office after the man admitting that he molested boarding-school boys in the
1970s, his order said Wednesday.

At least 16 men have come forward to say they were forced into sexual acts as boys at the school, near Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 110 kilometres east of Frankfurt.

Mainz, Germany - Despite co-directing the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, Loveleen Tandan remained modest this week as she spoke at a festival in Germany about the film's creation.

"I still consider myself a student, because in our business you are always learning something new," the Indian cinema celebrity said in an interview in Mainz.

The most important thing she learned during the "unique project" of making Slumdog Millionaire was "to trust your own instincts," she told the German Press Agency dpa

Mainz, Germany  - The downfall on Tuesday of a state finance minister shook Germany's only state where the Social Democratic Party (SPD) holds sole sway, Rhineland Palatinate.

Finance Minister Ingolf Deubel submitted his resignation to the state premier, Kurt Beck, after a private financing scheme for an amusement park unravelled, leaving the state to pay the bill.

The debacle rubs more of the gloss off the SPD, which is trying at national level to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel in the September 27 German general election.

Mainz, Germany - An Iraqi-German dispute heated up over an antique gold vase on Tuesday, as German customs officers said they would retrieve the object from a Mainz museum vault on Thursday, despite Iraqi opposition.

Both the Iraqi government and a Munich auction house have laid rival claims on the six-centimetre high vessel, safeguarded at the Roman-Germanic museum in Mainz since 2006.

Hamburg  - Mainz 05 clinched promotion to Germany's top-flight Bundesliga with a 4-0 victory over Rot-Weiss Oberhausen on Sunday.

Two goals apiece from Srdhan Baljak and Aristide Bance ensured Mainz finished second in the second division behind champions Freiburg who made sure of promotion two weeks ago.

Freiburg top the table on 68 points, with Mainz on 63 and Nuremberg third on 60.

Nuremberg go into a play-off for promotion with Energie Cottbus who finished third last in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The two-leg play-off will be on Thursday in Cottbus and Sunday in Nuremberg.

Mainz, Germany  - Taking basic steps to save energy can also save up to 60 euros (80 dollars) a year, according to a German consumer agency.

Computer users should set their system to energy saving mode, advises the Consumer Central of Rhineland Palatinate in Mainz, Germany. Doing so forces the computer to automatically switch into energy savings mode whenever possible, cutting power consumption down to four, instead of 80, watts.

Mainz, Germany  - Spam distributors are working today's headlines into their pitches in an effort to grab attention, most recently utilizing swine flu as a way to grab eyeballs.

To do so, they use a crawler, which searches the internet for topics of general interest, reports Sophos, an internet security company based in Mainz, Germany. The headlines are then automatically turned into spam subject lines through which spammers hope to use to infiltrate people's computers.

Mainz, Germany  - When registering for e-mail services or online networks, it is important to remember that a strong password is not the only thing you need to consider. The security question used to identify yourself in case of a lost password must also be strong to prevent hackers from gaining access via the back door.

Security company Sophos recommends going beyond the questions usually suggested by the service providers - favorite pet or mother's maiden name - and choosing an off-the-wall question whose answer only you would know.

Mainz, Germany  - Be it lovesickness, a troubled relationship, anxiety or depression, emotional problems can have many causes. Therapy may help. But how do you find the right therapist?

The various occupational descriptions themselves are confusing. A psychotherapist may be a psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health professional. There are also different kinds of therapies. They include psychoanalysis, during which the patient talks about childhood experiences, and behaviour therapy with practical training, as in cases of anxiety.

Mainz, Germany  - A special, secure internet chat service for children aged 8 to 12 is slated for its world premiere at this year's CeBit technology show from March 2-8.

Packed with security protocols, the free Windows Live Messenger for Kids is designed to protect children from offensive content, reported jugendschutz. net, a website specializing in protecting children. Working with representatives of the various German states, it developed the child-friendly messenger in collaboration with Microsoft and FSM, an e-commerce site that focuses on protecting minors.

Mainz, Germany - A paedophile priest in Germany has applied to Pope Benedict XVI to resign from the priesthood after admitting that he molested boarding-school boys in the 1970s, his order said Tuesday.

At least 16 men have come forward to say they were forced into sexual acts as boys at the school, near Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 110 kilometres east of Frankfurt.

The incidents happened too long ago, between 1972 and 1976, to be prosecuted as crimes. The school closed in 1978.

The Missionaries of the Holy Family expressed regret to the victims and said the man, 71, would cease to be a priest, but would remain with the order as a brother.

Mainz, Germany  - Officials spoke of hope as the cornerstone was laid Sunday for a new synagogue in the German city of Mainz, just over 70 years after the old one was destroyed.

The old house of worship was destroyed in the November 9, 1938 pogrom known as Kristallnacht, when Nazis ransacked thousands of Jewish homes, shops and synagogues, destroying many. The rebuilding ceremony comes weeks after ceremonies to commemorate the losses Germany's Jewish community suffered that night.

Mainz, Germany  - Computer users should be wary of certain e-mails made to appear as if they have been sent by EBay. Cyber criminals have adapted these to spread damaging software, according to the consumer centre of Rhineland Palatinate in Mainz, central Germany.

The e-mail appears to deal with legal fees in connection with purchases on EBay which prompts some readers to open an attachment. Once opened, the attachment spreads a virus. (dpa)

Mainz, Germany  - Spam is losing none of its annoyance and is becoming even more dangerous, according to analysts at Sophos - a German security software firm.

During the third quarter, one out of every 416 e-mails contained a potentially dangerous attachment compared with one in every 3,333 e-mails in the second quarter, Sophos said.

The increase can be linked to a large series of malware-spam attacks over the summer. Fake mails were doctored to appear as if they were coming from delivery company UPS and designed to steal money or online identities. All the bigger attacks targeted computers running Windows.

Mainz, Germany  - The clean-up of a former plant which made horrific German poison-gas shells used in the First World War is complete after 20 years of work, an official told legislators Thursday.

The Espagit factory in Hallschlag, Rhineland Palatinate state accidentally exploded in 1920 when an estimated 20,000 poison-gas shells were on the premises. The debris meant the site was an ecological disaster area for decades.

Attacks with gas clouds on enemy lines during the First World War left huge numbers of men maimed or blinded. The Allies also resorted to the tactic. The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) now outlaws stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.

Mainz  - The number of web pages infected with viruses continues to climb.

Between January and March 2008, US-based IT security company Sophos discovered a newly-infected web site every five seconds on average.

A year ago, that figure stood at "just" every 14 seconds, the company reported from its Mainz offices. "Anyone who calls up infected web sites can count on attacks by malicious programs," explains Matthias Gaertner from the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) in Bonn.