Berlin - The photograph of a Red Army solder hoisting the hammer and sickle atop the still smouldering Reichstag building as clouds of black smoke swirled in the background, made Russian photograph

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Stuttgart, Germany  - Daimler is studying plans to build a car factory using low-cost labour in eastern Europe, with options to be presented to its board on Monday, two German magazines said Saturd

Nuremberg, Germany  - Germany's first driverless mass-transit train line officially went into service Saturday in the southern city of Nuremberg, with a computer in charge of the underground trains

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Berlin - Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected Friday the suggestion that the European Union was in a crisis after the Irish rejection of the EU treaty.

Speaking to reporters at Binz on Germany's Baltic coast, Merkel said, "The situation is not an easy one. The European Union has already surmounted many difficult situations. That is why I'm quite sure that we'll find a way here to make progress."

The chancellor added that she could not yet say what a solution to the problem would look like.