Berlin - Speaking just hours before the inauguration of a new US embassy in Berlin, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Friday for the United States and Europe to unite on new

Berlin  - German factory orders fell again in May, the Ministry of Economics and Technology said Friday, dragged down by a sharp drop in domestic demand.

After slumping by 1.7 per cent in April, German industrial orders slipped by a price-and-seasonally adjusted 0.9 per cent in May, adding to expectations that Europe's biggest economy could slow as the year unfolds.

Economists had predicted the data, which is considered to be a key if volatile economic indicator, to clock up a modest 0.6 per cent gain in May.

"Industry orders in the last six months have significantly fallen from what was a high base," the economics ministry said releasing the latest data.

Hanover, Germany - Volkswagen said Friday it was abandoning plans to introduce a light pick-up truck in Europe.

Dresden, Germany - Senior officials in the German city of Dresden rejected on Friday a deadline fro

Beirut - A German judicial team has met with Jihad Hamad, a prime suspect in the failed 2006 attempt to bomb trains in Germany, in the presence of a Lebanese judge, judicial sources said Friday.

"Jihad Hamad was questioned on Thursday night by a Lebanese prosecutor in the presence of a German judicial team," the lawyer of Hamad, Fawaz Zakriyeh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Zakariyeh, who was present at the questioning along with his client, told dpa the questions focused on "links between Hamad and Youssed al-Hajj Deeb," who is currently held in Germany.

Berlin- Germany, where angry dairy farmers recently poured milk down drains for 10 d