Dusseldorf, Germany - Holders Sweden have been handed a wild card entry into next month's the ARAG World Team Championships, with Robin Soderling again set to lead the squad, organizers said on Tuesday. "This is great news for our team," said the world number 24, joined on the squad by Robert Lindstedt and Andreas Vinciguerra. "I hope we will be able to follow up on our success last year."
Selection of the Scandinavians completes the field for the eight-nation clay tune-up the week before Roland Garros, May 17-23.
Dusseldorf - One of the four men accused of a major Islamist terrorist plot in Germany was thrown out of court Tuesday for disturbing the courtroom proceedings with interjections. "I want to go back to my cell," Adem Yilmaz, 30, a Turkish citizen raised in Germany, called out at the start of the day's proceedings. He was duly ordered out of the courtroom. Yilmaz hugged his co- accused on the way out.
Dusseldorf - A man charged with leading the banned Kurdish Workers' Party or PKK in Germany rejected the indictment Monday as a "misunderstanding" and told the court he was a political refugee whose relations had been massacred by a Turkish mob in 1978. German prosecutors told the court he was the leader code-named Colak who ran the secretive Marxist group on German soil till April 2008. The PKK has been outlawed in Germany as a criminal gang because of its violence against renegade former members. 
Dusseldorf - German football authorities agreed Friday to go ahead with a Sunday afternoon Bundesliga game from next season despite opposition from the nation's amateur game.
Dusseldorf - Four alleged members of the Islamic Jihad Union terrorist organisation went on trial in Germany on Wednesday, amidst tight security at the district court in Dusseldorf.
Dusseldorf - Builders doing preparatory work for a new urban rail line in Germany cut open a Jewish grave and the human remains in it were removed for safekeeping, a municipal spokesman in the western German city of Dusseldorf said Tuesday.
