Berlin, Mar 28 : The famous painting on the Berlin Wall, which depicted the kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev, has been erased as a part of a clean-up of the surviving sections of the wall.
The Berlin authorities remain unconcerned on the issue as the artist of the masterpiece, Dmitri Vrubel has been told: "You can always paint a new one."
Berlin - Police who spent 16 years looking for one of Germany's most wanted criminals - a mystery woman suspected of three murders and 40 robberies - admitted Friday they had been chasing a phantom.
The DNA found at the crime scenes and traced to her belonged to another woman who in all probability had nothing to do with the crimes, prosecutors in the southern town of Heilbronn said.
Berlin - US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have moved to lay aside differences ahead of next week's summit of the world's big economies by agreeing that market reform will be the key issue on the meeting's agenda, a spokesman in Berlin said Friday.
The buildup to the Group of 20 summit of the world's most advanced powers and leading emerging economies in London has been accompanied by tensions between Washington and Europe over the need to help spur global economic growth with more government spending.
Berlin - Germany wants to develop relations with Mongolia, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday after talks with Mongolian Prime Minister Sanj Bayar in Berlin.
She told a news conference there was scope for expanding economic ties with the resource-rich Central Asian nation.
Bayar, who earlier met Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, said his visit to Germany also included talks with German business leaders in the steel, banking and rail sectors.
Berlin - Police who spent 16 years looking for one of Germany's most wanted criminals - a mystery woman suspected of three murders and 40 robberies - may have been chasing a phantom.
Officials admitted Thursday that the woman might not actually exist. This was because DNA found at the crime scene and attributed to her was probably tainted.
Berlin, Mar 28 : The famous painting on the Berlin Wall, which depicted the kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev, has been erased as a part of a clean-up of the surviving sections of the wall.
Berlin - Police who spent 16 years looking for one of Germany's most wanted criminals - a mystery woman suspected of three murders and 40 robberies - admitted Friday they had been chasing a phantom.
Berlin - US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have moved to lay aside differences ahead of next week's summit of the world's big economies by agreeing that market reform will be the key issue on the meeting's agenda, a spokesman in Berlin said Friday.
Berlin - Germany wants to develop relations with Mongolia, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday after talks with Mongolian Prime Minister Sanj Bayar in Berlin.
