Berlin - Two Italians were among eight foreigners who shared a prestigious German science prize on Tuesday.
Daniele Oriti and Cinzia Casiraghi were honoured with the Sofja Kovalesvskaja Prize for their research in physics.
The award, worth up to 1.65 million euros (2.09 million dollars), is funded by the Ministry of Research and Development with the aim of attracting young researchers to Germany.
Oriti, who has studied in Rome and Cambridge, is currently conducting research at the MPI Institute for Gravitational Physics at Potsdam, near Berlin.
Berlin- A former state premier who was a prominent minister at federal level quit Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Tuesday after receiving a reprimand over critical remarks that "breached party solidarity."
Wolfgang Clement ended 38 years of membership in the centre-left party that co-rules in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after calling the rebuke "inappropriate and wrong."
Berlin - Germany is ready to contribute up to 1,400 military personnel to a European Union security mission to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, a leading daily reported Tuesday.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine said the defence ministry had given the green light for the troops and sailors to take part in Operation Atalanta, due to be launched around mid-December.
Berlin - Despite signs of a deepening economic downturn, German consumer confidence posted a surprise increase, a key survey released Tuesday showed.
The Nuremberg-based GfK market research institute said its forward-looking consumer confidence indicator for December edged up to 2.2 from 1.9 in November.
"Many Germans don't believe yet that they will be significantly affected by the downturn," GfK said, releasing its latest index.
Berlin - Nowhere in Europe do Christian, Jewish and Islamic- linked online matchmaking sites flourish as much as in Germany, where people are increasingly turning to the internet for romance.
"For most people the Web is as much a part of life as shopping," says Friedhelm Hensen, Jr., who launched his SingleChrist. de website in 2007.
Hensen's service, The Singles Site by Christians for Christians, reaches far more people than a regional newspaper's lonely hearts column ever does, say media experts.
In August this year, more than 2 million people clicked onto the site, looking for a partner. Hensen says he's delighted when he receives a wedding announcement from a couple who have met through SingleChrist. de.
Berlin - A German court cleared the way Monday for a leading member of the terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF) to be released from prison after serving a sentence of
26 years.
The High Court in Stuttgart, south-west Germany, ruled that Christian Klar, 56, no longer presented a danger to society and could go free in January 2009.
Last year German President Horst Koehler declined to grant clemency to Klar, on the grounds he had failed to show remorse.
Berlin - Two Italians were among eight foreigners who shared a prestigious German science prize on Tuesday.
Berlin- A former state premier who was a prominent minister at federal level quit Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) on Tuesday after receiving a reprimand over critical remarks that "breached party solidarity."
Berlin - Germany is ready to contribute up to 1,400 military personnel to a European Union security mission to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, a leading daily reported Tuesday.
Berlin - Despite signs of a deepening economic downturn, German consumer confidence posted a surprise increase, a key survey released Tuesday showed.
Berlin - A German court cleared the way Monday for a leading member of the terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF) to be released from prison after serving a sentence of 
