Berlin - Ground staff targeted German carrier Lufthansa with brief warning strikes in support of a pay demand Tuesday.

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Berlin - German leaders will be happy to meet the presumptive Democratic nominee for the US presidency, Barack Obama, when he visits Germany this summer, government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said in Berlin Monday.

Wilhelm said no precise date had been fixed yet for the Obama visit, although Berlin was aware of Senator Obama's announcement that he intended to visit Europe and meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Zwickau, Germany - A minibus carrying 11 Polish tourists home from a holiday in Italy crashed on a German highway Monday, killing three of the passengers, police in Saxony state said.

Melbourne, June 30 : German police arrested a Turkish criminal after finding him in a newspaper snap cheering on his side during a Euro 2008 football match, which he was watching in a bar in Munich.

The 36-year-old man was wanted for fraud.

The officers immediately recognised him when they saw the picture, and contacted the newspaper to find out where the snap was clicked.

The barmen told the police that that man had been watching games there since the tournament began, and that people knew him as a local supermarket worker.

The man was nabbed while at work.