Berlin/Mannheim  - The lucky ones need only change their e-mail address or return goods they did not order. At worst, however, cyberstalking victims end up with a ruined reputation or a plundered bank account.

Cyberstalking takes many forms. And the abuse of personal data on the internet to play tricks on people or exert pressure on them is growing, experts say. Cultivation of one's web image and more careful use of personal data can help prevent trouble, however.

Hamburg  - A necessary evil, a burdensome duty or simply a source of stress - cleaning house is not everyone's favourite topic.

And hardly anyone would think mops and rags could be combined with a wellness programme. But there is another way of thinking about cleaning, experts say. It just depends on the right attitude.

Dortmund, Germany  - A football fan died Wednesday before a German Cup game in the round of the last 16 in Dortmund after falling from the terraces.

Werder Bremen came from behind to oust last year's losing finalist 2-1 to advance to the quarter-finals, while Bayer Leverkusen beat Energie Cottbus 3-0 to go through.

Police said that the man fell from the south terrace in the Signal-Iduna-Park and although he was immediately airlifted to hospital doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Berlin  - Level One, a British-run property investor, has declared insolvency in one of Germany's biggest real-estate collapses, an administrator disclosed Wednesday in Berlin.

Level One invested mainly in substandard communist-era public housing in eastern Germany and Berlin.

It ran out of credit to renovate the apartments as bank lending tightened up. While German has experienced neither a real-estate bubble nor a price slump, Level One was caught out by the British slump. Its German properties are hard to let without upgrading.

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Berlin - Berlin kick-started Wednesday a series of events marking 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

At a gathering on Berlin's landmark square Potsdamer Platz, the city's Senate representative Dr Richard Meng said 2009 is a "year of remembrance," as well as a "year of respect for the people who contributed to the peaceful fall of the Wall."

Throughout the year exhibitions, talks and guided walks will remind people of the huge change Berlin has undergone.