Straubing, Germany - A convicted sex killer took a prison's chief psychologist hostage in Germany and allegedly repeatedly raped her before surrendering to police early Wednesday, Bavarian officials said.
The state's justice minister, Beate Merk, said police were still investigating how the 51-year-old prisoner, who had faced his first sex charges at the age of 13, had obtained a knife and managed to tie up the woman in her office Tuesday evening.
He surrendered several hours later after armed police had surrounded the prison at Straubing, near Munich.
Bielefeld, Germany - Only one out of 10 Germans desire eternal life, according to a survey of 1,002 people conducted in January by the opinion research company Emnid based in Bielefeld, Germany.
Bonn, Germany - German's main competition agency, the Federal Cartel Office, fined US software company Microsoft 9 million euros (12 million dollars) Wednesday for imposing a retail price for its Office Home & Student 2007 software.
Berlin - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said Wednesday that he would hold fresh talks with Slovenia later this month in a bid to resolve the border dispute between the two neighbours.
Berlin - Germany is expecting the United States to simply expel John Demjanjuk, 89, a stateless man accused of being an accessory to 29,000 Nazi death camp murders, without going through any extradition procedure, an official said in Berlin Wednesday.
Hamburg - German cyclist Stefan Schumacher has lodged an appeal against a doping ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).
