…sioner who received a tin of American lard 64 years ago in an aid package, has only just tasted it, after discovering that it is still edible Hans Feldmeier, now a retired pharmacist, was a student in 1948 when the US was running a huge aid programme to rebuild war-ravaged Germany. He kept the tin of lard for emergencies. He decided to get the lard tested because of the debate about expiry dates a…
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…ve a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel It is not the first time that Il Giornale has been at the centre of controversy with Germany – two months ago after Italy beat Germany in the Euro 2012 semi final they printed a picture of Chancellor Angela Merkel below the headline: “Ciao, ciao culona” which translates as “Bye bye lard arse.” Last year it was alleged that Silvio Be…
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Read More » German historians are debating whether or not to open what is believed to be the world’s oldest bottle of wine. The bottle, believed to be 1,650-year-old, sealed with wax and containing a white liquid, has been on display at the Pfalz Historical Museum for more than a century. The wine, believed to have been produced locally, was buried with a Roman noble near the German city of Speyer in 350AD….
Francesco Schettino, the captain of doomed Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia had form before January’s disaster – he once crashed his ship while sailing too fast into a German port. Francesco Schettino “manoeuvred at a speed of 7.7 to 7.9 knots during entry into the port of Warnemunde, causing damage to the Aida Blu cruise ship”. The incident happened in June 2010. The captain resp…
Google has been ordered by a German federal court to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The court case was started by an unnamed German businessman who found that Google.de linked him with “scientology” and “fraud”. Google must now remove defamato…
Two German tourists and two Kenyan pilots have been killed in a plane crash in Maasai Mara national park, Kenyan police said. The aircraft was carrying 11 passengers, including five Germans, four Americans and two Czechs, the AFP news agency said. Three other passengers were seriously injured, police said. Two German tourists and two Kenyan pilots have been killed in a plane crash in Maasai Mara…
…reportedly Nazi-themed stag party, appeared to describe the Olympic Opening Ceremony as “leftie multi-cultural crap”. The comments, claiming the ceremony was more left wing than that which opened the 2008 Beijing Games in Communist China, appeared in a Twitter account purporting to be that of Aidan Burley, Tory MP for Cannock Chase. The opening section showcased British history, including the cre…
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German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who was once described as “the most influential singer of the 20th Century”, has died, aged 86. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, was famed for his performances of Winter’s Journey (Winterreise) by Schubert. Born in Berlin in May 1925, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, emerged as a performer after World War II and was swiftly recognized as one of his ge…
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…n Tuesday. Five climbers fell to their deaths while climbing Swiss mountain Lagginhorn on Tuesday On Wednesday, police gave further details about the victims. They included a 14-year-old girl and her 20-year-old brother. Their father survived. He had climbed most of the way but did not make the final attempt at the summit because he felt unwell. He saw the tragedy unfold and raised the alarm imme…
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Oktoberfest 2012, the 179th edition of the world’s most famous beer festival, has begun on September, 22, at the Theresienwiese fairground in Munich (München), Germany. September, 22 is also the day of autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, which brought a heavy rain to Munich. At the “Schottenhamel” beer tent, Mayor Christian Ude performed the traditional ritual and inserted the firs…
France has entered its second recession in four years after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2013, according to official figures. The country’s economy shrank by the same amount in the last quarter of 2012. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. France has record unemployment and low business and consumer confidence. German figures, also released,…
…t press ahead with the terms already agreed. The heavily-indebted country has received two massive EU and IMF bailouts – one for 130 billion euros this March and one for 100 billion euros in May 2010 – to allow it to continue payments on its vast public debt and stay in the eurozone. Cuts in public spending, benefits, pensions and public sector salaries imposed as a result of both loan…
…tugal, a few hours drive away. British detectives investigating her disappearance have been told the German family paid extra after arriving at the campsite with one more child than expected on May 6, 2007, reports The Sun. It is also believed that their vehicle had fake number plates to avoid detection. The alarm was raised by holidaymaker Karen Sisson, 49, who was staying at the Cabopino campsit…
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as warning that not too many quick decisions should be expected from the finance ministers’ meeting, which is supposed to add detail to the agreements from the eurozone leaders’ summit on 29 June. The communiqué from that summit said it expected the finance ministers “to implement these decisions by 9 July”, although many analysts say that now looks optimistic. Leaders hav…
…miles from northwestern North America, where there were reports of sightings. Instead, the satellite plunged into areas where remote islands dot a vast ocean. NASA says those new calculations show the 20-year-old satellite entered Earth’s atmosphere generally above American Samoa. But falling debris as the satellite broke apart did not start hitting the water for another 300 miles to the nor…
George Soros warns European leaders they have a “three-month window” to save the euro. The billionaire investor said he believed Greece would elect a government willing to abide by loan conditions imposed by the EU in this month’s elections. But George Soros said the German economy would begin in weaken in the autumn, making it much harder for Chancellor Angela Merkel to provide…
…nal lenders are due to arrive in Greece later to assess its progress towards reducing its debts. They must decide whether Greece is eligible to receive 31.5 billion Euros – the last tranche of a 130 billion euro ($158 billion) aid package agreed in March. Greece is behind in its plans to cut spending and debt because its economy is shrinking faster than forecast. Moody's has warned the…
…tered search terms”. “All terms that appear have been previously entered by Google users,” she added in a statement. The same text generates in rival search engine Bing.com. In March 2012 Google was ordered to disable the autocomplete function relating to search results for an unnamed man in Japan, who said his name was being associated with crimes he had not committed. …
…president on an anti-austerity ticket, said on Thursday there were “points in common on growth”. “Merkel has moved in the direction I wanted,” he told French TV channel France 2. Adding that he and the German leader had also agreed on the financial transaction tax, he said they still needed to find agreement “on stability”. “There are ongoing discussions,…
…be in the Tiergarten park, near the Reichstag, the German parliament building. The unveiling comes after years of delays and disputes over the memorial’s design and its cost. Experts say between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma were killed during World War II. “It’s very important to me that we have a culture of remembrance,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview on…
The German government has backed new legislation aimed at ending a legal dispute over the religious tradition of circumcision. The cabinet has announced support for proposals that would explicitly allow the practice. Earlier this year, a regional court ruled that circumcision of newborn boys amounted to assault, prompting protests from Jewish and Muslim organizations. It also raised fears among s…
France President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are marking the 50th anniversary of an historic speech seen as a key moment in the post-WWII reconciliation between the two countries. Addressing an audience of young Germans in their own language in 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle said they were “children of a great nation which had made great errors”. Th…
Angry at the fate of the euro, Greeks are comparing the German government with the Nazis who occupied their country in the Second World War. In a Greek newspaper some cartoons have presented modern-day German officials dressed in Nazi uniform. Meanwhile, a street poster depicts Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed as an officer in Hitler’s regime accompanied with the words: “Public nuisance”. Angela…
…sident Karolos Papoulias is wrong.” The caretaker government was sworn in this week after elections failed to produce a viable coalition to run the country. New elections have been scheduled for 17 June. The vote could result in a government that would refuse to implement the austerity measures that Greece’s last remaining international creditors are insisting on. Speculation is increa…
…XVI, 84, is to address the German parliament and say Mass in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium during the four-day visit. The pontiff will travel widely across Germany, where there are officially 25 million Catholics – one third of the population. The Pope has visited Germany unofficially several times since assuming the Church’s highest office, travelling to Catholic strongholds…
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