Berlin, Jan 11 : Scientists have determined that the observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident as has been claimed by some climate skeptics.

Scientists at the GKSS Research Centre of Geesthacht in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland have investigated the frequency of warmer than average years between 1880 and 2006 for the first time.

Between 1880 and 2006 the average global annual temperature was about 15 degrees Celsius. However, in the years after 1990, the frequency of years when this average value was exceeded increased.

The researchers' result indicated that the observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident.

Berlin  - Around 10 to 20 per cent of all computer users report aches and pains related to the use of the mouse.

"The repetition of stereotypical movements in particular can lead to chronic disorders," explains occupational psychologist Hardo Sorgatz from the Technical University of Darmstadt. Specialists often speak of repetitive stress injury (RSI) syndrome, known popularly as "mouse arm."

Berlin  - Muslims in Berlin are planning to open a school to train Islamic clergymen, the first of its kind in the German capital.

The project is the brainchild of Institut Buhara, an organization founded by a group of Muslims linked to the Sufi branch of Islam.

The move comes amid growing frustration by Muslims who have grown up in Germany at what they are learning from imams who generally come from outside the country and rarely speak German.

Berlin  - German porcelain maker Rosenthal filed for insolvency on Friday, four days after its Anglo-Irish parent Waterford Wedgwood announced that it had been placed into administration.

A spokeswoman for Rosenthal said that company did not possess sufficient liquidity to carry on normal operations despite being excluded from insolvency proceedings of Waterford Wedgwood.

Efforts by the board had failed to secure enough capital to enable the company to continue operating during an interim period until it is sold to a strategic investor, the spokeswoman added.

Berlin  - Christian Klar, 56, a former leftwing urban terrorist, has refused a trainee job at a taxpayer-funded Berlin theatre because he wants to stay out of the limelight, his lawyer Heinz-Juergen Schneider said Friday.

Klar was freed on parole on December 19 after serving 26 years of a life sentence for nine murders he committed as a co-leader of the Red Army Faction (RAF) revolutionary movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

Berlin - German industrial production slumped 3.1 per cent in November, the Ministry for Economics and Technology said, as a prolonged recession loomed over Europe's biggest economy.

The seasonally adjusted monthly fall in output in November followed a revised 1.8-per-cent drop in October.

Analysts had predicted that production would fall by 2 per cent in November.

The latest output data came amid signs that an economic downturn was taking hold in the nation, with figures released this week showing a sharp drop in both German exports and factory orders.