Berlin - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is having second thoughts about helping Iran with its controversial nuclear programme, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday, quoting unspecified intelligence reports.

The weekly said North Korea had also provided assistance to Iran at a Syrian facility bombed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007.

Experts believe the site at al-Kibar was used to produce nuclear material the Iranian regime needed to make a bomb, the magazine reported.

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the memory of the short-lived democratic uprising in Czechoslovakia 40 years ago should be kept alive.

For many in the former Soviet-bloc states of Eastern Europe, 1968 was not so much about student protests but about the memory of events like the Prague Spring, Merkel said in her weekly podcast.

"Not only were economic reforms introduced, there was also a bit more freedom for the population," said the chancellor, who grew up in communist-ruled East Germany.

Berlin  - Despite a surge in demand in China and Brazil, Europe's b

Berlin - Stagflation and interest rates fears are expected to have resulted in a raft of key surveys showing a fall in European economic sentiment, lead by a drop in German business confidence with

Berlin, June 20 : A new research has determined that the laws of nature are the same in the distant Universe as they are here on Earth.

Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the need for urgency in pressing ahead with the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon, speaking to the German parliament hours before a key EU summit that wil