Cologne, Germany - Three people were still missing on Tuesday evening several hours after the western German city of Cologne's historical archives and two neighbouring buildings collapsed in what one witness compared to a 9/ll scene.

Earlier, police had spoken of nine missing, but in the meantime six persons had been located elsewhere. A police spokeswoman said sniffer dogs were still being used to search the rubble for those still missing.

But there were fears about their survival chances beneath the rubble.

Cologne, Germany  - Nine people were missing Tuesday after historical archives and two neighbouring buildings collapsed in the west German city of Cologne.

A spokesman for the city fire brigade said that a search of the rubble was underway to try to find the missing people with officials saying it was unclear how many injured there are likely to be.

"The complete area was shrouded in a dark mist, just like September 11," said Paraskevi Oustampasiadi, whose newspaper stand is near the collapsed buildings.

Cologne, Germany  - Repetitive strain is a creeping threat for any 21st century computer user. Steady mouse clicking may seem innocent, but many computer users find that pain starts in their arm and eventually spreads to their wrist and shoulder.

In the days of the good old typewriter, people suffered from so-called writer's cramp. Although the phrase has since been shelved, the problem still applies to anyone who spends hours at a desk.

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Cologne, Germany  - Ford is offering a super Green version of the Fiesta with consumption reduced to under four litres of diesel fuel in the Econetic version in fine-tuning the aerodynamics, improving the drive ratio and fitting low rolling resistance tyres.

Compared to the standard 1.6 litre-version with a consumption of 4.2 litres, the Econetic achieves 3.7 litres putting it on a par with the Seat Ibiza Ecomotive.

Cologne, Germany - More than 1 million Germans jammed the streets of Rhine valley cities Monday to view carnival parades and to be showered with sweets in a traditional attempt to dispel winter woes.

The biggest of the parades, in Cologne, featured 150 elaborate floats and 11,500 performers and marching bands.

Masters of ceremonies on some of the floats had lockers stuffed with hundreds of kilograms of chocolates, roses and baubles to scatter to an estimated 1 million cheering, dancing people ignoring the chill and drizzling rain.