Stuttgart - German judges gave 10 years jail Tuesday to the chief plotter in a failed attempt to assassinate a prime minister of of post-Saddam Iraq during a visit to Berlin four years ago. 

Vienna - The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) remained virtually unchanged, figures released by OPEC showed on Tuesday.

Berlin  - More than 11,000 people applied for asylum in Germany in the first half of this year, almost a third of them Iraqis, the Interior Ministry reported in Berlin Monday.

Berlin  - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble signed a repatriation agreement with his Syrian counterpart Bassam Abdelmajid in Berlin Monday.

Berlin - Two runners have died during a mountain running event on Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, police in the region along the Austrian border reported Monday.