Berlin - Doctors saved a baby by carrying out an emergency Caesarean section after the mother died in a freak motor accident, police in the city of Braunschweig said Saturday.

Berlin - Chancellor Angela Merkel is to visit Algeria next week at the head of a German business delegation, her spokesman announced Friday.

Copenhagen - Denmark-based Kurdish television station Roj TV said Friday it had nothing to do with the abduction of German climbers in Turkey.

"That has nothing in the slightest to do with us. We are also not commenting on this issue," the head of the broadcaster in exile, Manouchehr Zonoozi, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The group that abducted the three Germans late Tuesday, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), said they were taken because the German government had banned Roj TV in Germany at the end of June.

Zonoozi said the ban in Germany was "politically motivated."

Berlin - The planned takeover of Thomas Cook's Condor airline by budget carrier Air Berlin has collapsed, both sides announced Friday, saying they had withdrawn their application to the German comp

Munich - Police said Thursday they had broken up a network of boutique factories in Ge