Nuremberg, Germany  - Parents who discover their teenager is smoking cannabis should not overreact, but remain cool and collected, a German child guidance specialist advised.

Andreas Engel from Germany's Bundeskonferenz fuer Erziehungsberatung, an association that groups together the country's child guidance councillors, says parents should also inform themselves about marijuana's main active ingredient, THC.

Nuremberg, Germany  - Two water-colour paintings of scenery by Adolf Hitler are to be auctioned in Germany this month, a Nuremberg newspaper, the Abendzeitung, said Thursday.

The paintings, "Farmhouse" and "Farm Buildings by a Stream," were both signed, according to the online catalogue, which showed them in black and white. They dated from 1914. The auctioneer in Nuremberg, Herbert Weidler, could not be reached for comment.

Nuremberg - Safety inspectors said Monday they found faults in 400 toys, or about a quarter of the products they checked against European Union guidelines, during the annual Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany.

Christine Haderthauer, minister of family affairs in the German state of Bavaria, attacked the EU guidelines as too lax, saying they permitted small amounts of dangerous substances. She called for the substances to be banned outright.

Safety is a key issue at the six-day fair which ends this Tuesday. The toy trade is dominated by Chinese manufacturers.

Nuremberg, Germany - Richard Williamson, the British-born Catholic who denies the evidence for the Holocaust, lost a court case Monday in Germany in which he tried to prevent the broadcasting of his views.

He gave the interview year in Zaitzkofen, Germany to a Swedish television company, Sveriges Television AB.

His lawyers demanded an urgent injunction from the Nuremberg and Fuerth state court to make the TV company remove the video sequence from its web page and cease licensing the interview for worldwide use, a court spokesman said.

Nuremberg, Germany - The Japanese trading-card game Bakugan Battle Brawlers and the matching television series ramped up a push into western Europe at the Nuremberg Toy Fair Thursday.

The television series, which went on air in Japan in 2007, started several weeks ago in German on Cartoon Network Deutschland, a pay-TV channel. Rights holder CTM said Thursday it expected free-to-air broadcasting of Bakugan on the Tele 5 channel to begin next month.

Nuremberg, Germany - Barbie, the original fashion doll, turns an ageless 50 next month and must fight off a string of equally skinny challengers vying for attention from the world's little girls.

Mattel Inc, the world's biggest toy company, is planning celebrations all year marking the anniversary of the March 9, 1959 appearance at the New York Toy Fair of Barbie, who has since developed separate African-American and Hispanic identities and dozens of doll friends.

During the Nuremberg Toy Fair, which opens its doors Thursday for a six-day run, live mdels with outrageously long false eyelashes are showing 50 years of Barbie fashions. The company is celebrating Barbie as a role model who opened up new careers for girls.