Bonn, Germany - Germany's competition regulator said Friday it was extending a review of the planned takeover by a German company of a Danish sugar maker.

Nordzucker of Braunschweig, Germany, said months ago that it had agreed to purchase the sugar division of Danisco A/S of Denmark, a move that would boost its European sugar market share from 9 to 16 per cent.

Most European sugar production is derived from sugar beets.

Bonn, Oct 30 : Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand retained the World Chess Championship title in Bonn late on Wednesday night after ending the 11th game with Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik in a draw.

Anand had earlier won the Championship in 2000 and 2007.

Anand won three games, drew seven times and lost once en route to winning the competition by 6.5 points to 4.5.

With this win, he became the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: Knockout, Tournament and Match.

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Bonn, Germany - German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom said Friday it would tighten up data-privacy rules and appoint a seventh board member in charge of corporate compliance and legal issues.

The company moved six days after the revelation that a telephone directory of 17 million customers and their T-Mobile phone numbers had been obtained more than two years ago by a private company.

In Germany, most wireless-line numbers are ex-directory and confidential.

Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said at the company's head office in Bonn that in future, the company would voluntarily brief the public on a dedicated website about "critical data-privacy incidents" undergoing criminal investigation.

Bonn, Germany - Software or driver updates should only be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Updates offered as e-mail attachments or on third party sites can in fact turn out to contain malicious programs or viruses, according to the German publisher, Verlag fuer die Deutsche Wirtschaft, in Bonn.

Bonn - German prosecutors applied Saturday for arrest warrants for two terrorist suspects escorted off an Amsterdam-bound plane at Cologne airport.

Chief prosecutor Fred Apostel said evidence provided by police showed the pair "were planning to carry out an attack in the near future."

The two men, a Somali national aged 23 and a 24-year-old German born in Mogadishu, were taken off a Dutch KML airliner on Friday morning minutes before it was due to take off.