Berlin - A group of artists has refused to participate in an ambitious project to restore the original artwork on the longest remaining strip of the Berlin Wall in a dispute over payment and the way the work is being carried out.
At least 15 of the 86 artists who have been invited to re-paint the images they drew two decades ago are boycotting the project, their spokesman, Bodo Sperling, said Thursday.
Berlin - German doctors have successfully removed an 18-kilogram cancerous tumour from a Saudi woman patient, leaving her weighing only 37 kilograms as she goes into rehabilitation.
Capital Health Hospital Group, a Berlin clinic operator, said Thursday it believed the chondrosarcoma, a tumour growing in the bone of the pelvis, was the biggest ever taken from a patient. It had amounted to almost one third of her body weight.
Berlin - The two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government have agreed to restrict benefits enjoyed by corporative executives which have been widely blamed for a "culture of greed" in high finance, party sources in Berlin said Thursday.
While there would be no cap on executive pay, which has been proposed in many nations, executives would in future be barred from cashing in their stock options during their period of employment.
Berlin - As German analysts are estimating an economic shrinkage of some 6 per cent in 2009, voices are now beginning to warn of the dangers of social unrest.
Presidential candidate Gesine Schwan said Thursday that popular anger could grow significantly in coming months, as initial measures to counter the economic downturn wore off.
"If there isn't a glimmer of hope that the situation is improving, the mood could become explosive," the Social Democratic (SPD) candidate told the daily Muenchener Merkur.
Berlin - Germany is to expand its cultural diplomacy abroad, reaching out to academics by building a series of missions to highlight German scientific and engineering achievements, officials said Thursday in Berlin.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the offices were part of a push to invest more in cultural diplomacy.
The first such House of Science has been opened in Sao Paolo,
Brazil, and more are planned in Moscow, New Delhi and New York.
Berlin - A group of artists has refused to participate in an ambitious project to restore the original artwork on the longest remaining strip of the Berlin Wall in a dispute over payment and the way the work is being carried out.
Berlin - German doctors have successfully removed an 18-kilogram cancerous tumour from a Saudi woman patient, leaving her weighing only 37 kilograms as she goes into rehabilitation.
Berlin - The two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government have agreed to restrict benefits enjoyed by corporative executives which have been widely blamed for a "culture of greed" in high finance, party sources in Berlin said Thursday.
Berlin - As German analysts are estimating an economic shrinkage of some 6 per cent in 2009, voices are now beginning to warn of the dangers of social unrest.
