Leipzig, Germany  - One of Germany's leading classical orchestras walked out on its first strike in its 265-year-history Friday, with musicians of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig demanding bett

Leipzig, Germany - Spore, a long awaited computer game slated for September release, was named "Best PC Game" at the recent Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, by a jury of experts.

Leipzig, Germany  - Gazprom of Russia confirmed on Wednesday its interest in expanding its stake in Germany's third-largest gas importing company, Verbundnetz Gas (VNG).

Alexej Miller, chief executive of Gazprom, spoke in Leipzig during celebrations of the 50th anniversary of VNG's foundation as a major state-owned enterprise in communist East Germany. VNG's current business and municipal shareholders have been feuding for weeks.

Leipzig, Germany - Sony has announced plans to begin offering the Playstation 3 in a version with more memory for storage. The gaming console will be available with 160 Gigabytes (GB) of capacity starting on October 31. That represents a doubling of the console's storage space. The internet-ready units will cost 449 dollars, the manufacturer indicated at the recent Games Convention trade fair in Leipzig.

Leipzig, Germany - Germany's giant Games Convention opens its doors this week with organizers saying Wednesday they expect a record year for one of the key events on world games industry's calendar.

The number of exhibitors at this year's Games Convention has risen from 503 last year to 547 this year with organizers expecting the number of premieres of digital games and gaming products to rise by 50 per cent to about 300.

About 40 per cent of the exhibitors are from overseas with more as 200,000 visitors expected at the trade fair, which is now in its seventh year.

Leipzig, Germany - The world's oldest surviving semi-complete copy of the bible, a 4th-century manuscript in ancient Greek that was discovered in a waste-paper bin by a German scholar, is set to go online on Thursday, the University of Leipzig Library says. 

The Codex Sinaiticus, rediscovered in a monastery in the Sinai peninsula by Konstantin von Tischendorf in 1844, contains half the Jewish Old Testament and most of the Christian New Testament, the library said Monday. 

Another manuscript, the Codex Vaticanus, is about as old, while fragments of both parts of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Egyptina papyri are older. But the Sinai bible offers unique evidence of what Greek-speaking Christians read around the year 350.