Berlin - Delivery of pipes for a controversial new gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea begins this week, although the project has yet to win clearance from several nations with Baltic coasts.
Munich - UniCredit's German banking arm, HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is to transfer some of its operations to Poland at a cost of 250 German jobs, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Freiburg, Germany - Amnesty International began its own torch relay through Germany on Saturday to draw attention to what it described as human rights breaches in China.
Berlin - Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou expressed optimism Friday that the divided eastern Mediterranean island would be reunited by the end of the decade.
Berlin - German youths are turning away from tobacco and cannabis, but there is an "alarmin
