Berlin - The chairman of Germany's coalition Social Democrats (SPD) Franz Muentefering said Germany had not done enough to incorporate East Germans, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in an interview published Sunday. "Everything suffers from the fact that we didn't really organise a reunification in 1989-90, but added East Germany to the Federal Republic. That has not been processed," Muentefering told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

Muentefering, whose SPD is in a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), said East Germans felt their life achievements weren't fully recognised.

Kaufbeuren, Germany - The basic version of the free office software suite, OpenOffice, packs in a lot of functionality. Yet for some users it's just not enough. Fortunately it doesn't need to be. A variety of extensions, most available for free, can be used to add even more pep to the standard version. This type of modular software construction is familiar to users of web browsers like Firefox and Opera as an effective way to integrate expanded capabilities. As with OpenOffice itself, these are free software add-ons developed by enthusiastic developers from the OpenOffice community.

Bonn - Hackers have started trying to hit people where they live by distributing e-mails with fake news of local atrocities in the hope of getting people to open a link and expose their computer to danger. One trick is to send out an e-mail with a subject line reading, "At least 18 killed in your city," according to the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The included link as though it leads to a Reuters news article, but secretly delivers a damaging program to the system, if the user clicks on a video player. The only safe option is to delete the e-mail without opening the link.

Eislingen, Germany - Police were Saturday questioning an 18-year-old in the slaying of his parents and two sisters at the family home Eislingen, south-west Germany. A police spokesman said the youth and his friend, aged 19, were being treated as prime suspects in Friday's shootings.

"The circumstances indicate it was somebody who had close links to the family or was a family member," said police spokesman Rudi Bauer.

Berlin - German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck warned Saturday of the threat of global inflation as a result of the economic and financial crisis. "There is so much money being pumped into the market that there could be a threat of an overloading of the capital markets and worldwide inflation when an economic recovery comes," Steinbrueck told the newspaper Bild.

Berlin - Thousands of people demonstrated against the foreign military presences in Iraq and Afghanistan on Saturday during traditional Easter peace marches held across Germany. US President Barack Obama's call for a world free of nuclear arms was also a major theme of the rallies and protest marches held in bright sunshine at 28 towns and cities.

All told there are more than 70 different events being held by the German peace movement over the four-day Easter period, ending on Monday.