Berlin - Duplicated data is often little more than dead weight on your hard drive.

To solve that problem, specialized programs are available to track them down and remove them. Nevertheless, experts advise using caution and security when using them, otherwise you might accidentally send some of your cherished family photos into digital limbo.

Digital photos are notorious for accumulating duplicates on a hard drive.

"It's easy to build up extra data if you make copies and then forget to delete the original," said Peter Knaak, a technology expert at Stiftung Warentest, a consumer reports organization.

"It's worth cleaning up the hard drive occasionally to free up memory space."

Copenhagen/Berlin - "The Fehmarn Strait bridge is coming," proclaimed German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, referring to a 19-kilometre Baltic Sea link between Germany and Denmark.

To make sure it does, Tiefensee is scheduled to travel to Copenhagen on Wednesday to ink the final agreement together with his Danish counterpart, Carina Christensen.

Buechel, Germany  - About 2,000 pacifists demonstrated without violence Saturday outside a German Air Force base where they insist 20 US nuclear weapons are stored.

They demanded that the weapons be removed from Buechel air base on Germany's western rim and be scrapped. Hundreds of police kept a careful eye on the rally after some demonstrators had threatened to climb the fence and invade the fighter-bomber base.

Hamburg  - A match at the 2006 World Cup involving five-time world champions Brazil may have been rigged by an Asian betting syndicate, an investigate journalist claims in an interview with the German magazine Spiegel.

In the report to appear Monday, the Canadian journalist Declan Hill said his research had shown that an Asian syndicate wanted Ghana to lose the quarter-final match by at least two goals. Brazil went on to win 3-0 in Dortmund.

Berlin  - Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has warned in an interview with a German magazine against appeasing Russia, but also said he would not support sanctions against Moscow.

The news weekly Der Spiegel released the text Saturday. It quoted Schwarzenberg saying Prague supported a rapid admission of Georgia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), saying delay over this had only encouraged Russia to establish facts on the ground.