Berlin - German investor confidence reported its sixth consecutive monthly rise in April, a key indicator to be released Tuesday is forecast to show, amid hopes for Europe's biggest economy and more positive news out of the crisis-hit world financial sector.
Analysts predict the Mannheim-based Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) will say its index measuring the mood among analysts and institutional investors edged up to 2 points this month compared to minus 3.5 points in March.
Berlin - The suburban German S-Bahn train rumbles towards Berlin's Bundesplatz station, offering passengers a glimpse of a nearby art foundry, its yard littered with abandoned metal sculptures and moulds.
In the adjacent workshop sparks fly from furnaces where workers wear protective clothing and pour molten metal into casts. Sculptors from around the world occasionally arrive at the premises, eager to try out their ideas and realise them together with the bronze moulders.
Berlin - Germany plans to create a so-called bad bank by July to help rid the nation's banks of troubled assets and rebuild confidence in the financial sector, the government announced Monday.
Coming in the wake of banking industry pressure, Berlin is set to unveil further details of its proposals to allow the banks to remove so-called toxic assets from their balance sheets at a meeting Tuesday of industry and government leaders, which is to be chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Berlin - Typical indicators for sea sickness are a dry mouth, cold sweat, dizziness and nausea, sometimes followed by vomiting.
Medically speaking sea sickness is a variation of motion sickness or kinetosis. Though it does not always end up with the affected person "feeding the fishes", it can however ruin a boat trip. But, with the right medicine and a few useful tips, it can be kept under control.
Berlin - A motor cyclist involved in an accident, who falls unconscious, should have their helmet removed as soon as possible to avoid suffocation, according to Germany's Red Cross in Berlin.
To prevent a possible neck injury from worsening, you should carefully slide the helmet off to the point where you can support the victim's head with your hand.
Berlin - German investor confidence reported its sixth consecutive monthly rise in April, a key indicator to be released Tuesday is forecast to show, amid hopes for Europe's biggest economy and more positive news out of the crisis-hit world financial sector.
Berlin - The suburban German S-Bahn train rumbles towards Berlin's Bundesplatz station, offering passengers a glimpse of a nearby art foundry, its yard littered with abandoned metal sculptures and moulds.
Berlin - Germany plans to create a so-called bad bank by July to help rid the nation's banks of troubled assets and rebuild confidence in the financial sector, the government announced Monday.
Berlin - The German Central Council of Jews welcomed on Monday Germany's boycott of a United Nations conference on racism.
Berlin - Typical indicators for sea sickness are a dry mouth, cold sweat, dizziness and nausea, sometimes followed by vomiting.
Berlin - A motor cyclist involved in an accident, who falls unconscious, should have their helmet removed as soon as possible to avoid suffocation, according to Germany's Red Cross in Berlin.
