Cologne, Germany - European telephones giant Deutsche Telekom is to summon shareholders this year to vote through a major reorganization that will fold its T-Mobile wireless business back into the main company, Telekom said Thursday in Cologne.

At a shareholder meeting in Cologne, chief executive Rene Obermann said executive responsibilities would be re-allocated, but the move did not mean any job losses in the company's German home market. Obermann said he was concentrating on "modernizing" the company.

Cologne, Germany - The German city of Cologne published Monday the design for a future memorial to honour the men who deserted Nazi Germany's armed forces, or paid with their lives for being conscientious objectors. The memorial will be only the second civic monument in a public space to pacifists in a country where many people who lived through the war and are now dying out still regarded deserters as traitors.

Only Berlin has a public monument, in the form of 100 mirrors in a park where 230 German men were executed by firing squad 1944-45.

Cologne, Germany - A novelist's papers, including the scroll awarding him the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature, have been recovered from a pile of rubble in the German city of Cologne, officials said Thursday.

Manuscripts and letters by Heinrich Boell, who died in 1985, had been placed in the city archives for safekeeping. But the building collapsed, killing two people, on March 3, apparently after a pothole had formed in a construction site under the street outside.

Cologne, Germany  - Three self-styled jihadist teenagers who ambushed German police officers were convicted Friday of attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime by a court in Cologne, Germany.

One, aged 18, was sentenced to three years of youth detention, while a 17- and 15-year-old had their respective 9-month and 18-month youth-detention sentences suspended.

Cologne, Germany  - The medium-sized Ford Mondeo can be ordered with liquid petroleum gas drive (LPG) based on the Flexifuel version that can also be driven with petrol or ethanol, making it a triple-fuel vehicle, Ford Germany has announced.

The Mondeo is fitted with a two-litre Duratec engine with an output of 107 kW/145 hp when driven with petrol. In the LPG mode, power is slightly reduced to 104 kW/141 hp.

The LPG tank is fitted in the spare wheel compartment with the vehicle retaining its normal 70 litre petrol tank, giving it a total range of more than 1,000 kilometres using both fuel modes.

Cologne, Germany  - Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral infection, it can have deadly consequences.

It's advisable to three or four days pass before resuming your workout routine.

The condition, myocarditis, slows down the return to the gym. The heart muscle tissue can become infected "more often than you'd think," says Hans-Georg Predel, head of the Institute for Circulatory Research and Sports Medicine at the German Sports Academy in Cologne.