Hamburg, Germany  - A team of German scientists have come up with compelling, new proof that a huge, giant black hole of unimaginable dimensions is at the very heart and centre of our galaxy.

For decades, astronomers have speculated about the possibility of a black hole at the Milky Way galaxy's centre. But because of the billions of stars which lie between Earth and the hub of the galaxy, it has always been impossible to see what is actually at the centre.

Bangkok  - Thailand's Parliament opened an extraordinary session Monday to vote in a new prime minister after the last premier and much of the cabinet lost their posts in a court ruling.

The vote was expected to be close between the two nominated candidates, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and the Puea Paendin Party's leader, police General Pracha Promnok.

"It will be a close call," said Kraisak Choonhavan, a senior Democrat Party member.

Bremerhaven, Germany  - Europe's biggest car terminal is bursting at the seams as unsold cars pile up, mirroring the dramatic situation in the automobile industry.

More than 90,000 vehicles are clogging the shipping terminal in the north German port of Bremerhaven, waiting to find new owners.

"We can't move the cars, work on them or deliver them until they find buyers," said Detthold Aden, head of the BLG Logistics Group, which administers the facility.

Roll-on roll-off vessels delivering new cars or loading them up for export have always been a welcome sight in the bustling port. That is not the case for the nine large car carriers tied up this weekend.

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Taipei  - A Shenzhen Airlines plane from China landed at Taipei's Sungshan Airport early Monday, as the two former civil war enemies opened direct transport and postal links.

The plane, which left Shenzhen airport at 7:20 am (2320 GMT) carrying 112 people, arrived at Sungshan Airport in an hour and 30 minutes, becoming the first plane from China to kick off the historic daily charter flights across the Taiwan Strait.