Berlin - Women who wear glasses don't have it easy when it comes to putting on make-up. Depending on whether a woman is farsighted or nearsighted, here eyes look either larger or smaller than they actually are through her spectacles.
Apart from that, both tinted and non-reflecting lenses soak up colour suddenly rendering the eyes paler than intended. The problem for some women is that they see only a blurred image when they look in the mirror without glasses, and contact lenses are not a viable solution for everyone.
These problems can easily be resolved, said Kerstin Kruschinski of a vision centre in Berlin.
Berlin - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrives in Berlin Thursday to make the key speech of a foreign tour aimed at enhancing his foreign policy credentials for the US electorate.
The Democratic Party senator is to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel soon after flying in to Berlin's Tegel Airport before noon.
Talks with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are scheduled for the early afternoon.
Berlin - German pilots union Cockpit expressed satisfaction Wednesday with a strike targeting Lufthansa subsidiaries CityLine and Eurowings as it entered its second and last day.
Berlin - A pilots' union in Germany called a sudden strike Tuesday to disrupt the air-passenger operations of two Lufthansa domestic subsidiaries and back up demands for a big hike in pay.
There was only two hours of warning that many flights by the Eurowings and CityLine units of Lufthansa, which operate short-haul connections within Germany and to nearby nations, would be grounded for 36 hours from noon till midnight Wednesday.
The union, Vereinigung Cockpit, represents pilots and flight-deck engineers. Some flights were expected to continue, since the union does not represent all the pilots employed at the two lines.
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Tuesday the arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, calling it "good news for the entire Balkans."
Berlin - Germany is to open a consulate-general with a senior diplomat in charge in Arbil, part of the Kurdish region of Iraq, officials in Berlin said Monday, a day before Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki begins talks in Berlin.
Germany already has a small office in Arbil. A consulate-general is a full-scale mission outside a nation's capital. The mission would open at the start of 2009 once security issues had been settled, the Foreign Ministry said.
Berlin - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrives in Berlin Thursday to make the key speech of a foreign tour aimed at enhancing his foreign policy credentials for the US electorate. 
Berlin - Germany is to open a consulate-general with a senior diplomat in charge in Arbil, part of the Kurdish region of Iraq, officials in Berlin said Monday, a day before Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki begins talks in Berlin.
