Munich - An alleged gigolo who seduced Germany's richest woman, Susanne Klatten, 46, has been indicted for professional fraud, a court in Munich said Thursday.

Helg Sgarbi, 43, has been in pre-trial custody since January after Klatten, a brunette billionairess with a husband and three children, called police to say the Swiss man was trying to blackmail her with intimate videos.

News reports suggest Sgarbi, a former bank executive, was doing the will of an Italian religious guru, Ernano Barretta, 63, who is in custody in Italy on related charges.

Hamburg - Germany's fourth-biggest airport, in Hamburg, gained its own rail link Thursday when a 3-kilometre tunnel from the air terminal to the rail system opened.

A 26-minute ride to downtown on the electric-train link costs 2.60 euros (3.35 dollars), far less than the expensive airport coaches which are the bugbear of air travellers in many nations.

Defenders of the German language were upset at plans to call the new underground station "Hamburg Airport" in English. So the German word for airport was added in parentheses, making the name "Hamburg Airport (Flughafen)".

New Delhi, Dec 11 : India and Germany signed agreements to effectuate four important development projects funded by German Official Development Assistance amounting to over Rs. 3320 crores.

The projects fall in the realm of renewable energy, power generation and immunisation.

The projects include supporting lines X and XI of the pulse polio program, financing pare hydro electric project in Arunachal Pradesh, supporting the sustainable energy programs by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) and setting up a 2x800 super critical thermal power plant at Krishnapattnam in Andhra Pradesh.

London - British officials reacted angrily Thursday to an open attack by Germany's finance minister on the economic rescue policies adopted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Government sources in London suggested that it was Germany which was "out of step" with most other nations on how to handle the crisis.

Peer Steinbrueck, Germany's finance minister, said in an outspoken interview with US magazine Newsweek that Britain's conversion from economic and financial prudence to heavy state borrowing was "crass" and "breathtaking."

In particular, Steinbrück criticized the 2.5-per-cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT), to 15 per cent, introduced by the government from December 1.

Hamburg  - A gift of jewellery can express love, status, luxury or simply a zest for life.

But it always expresses a special emotion. That makes necklaces, bracelets and rings a favourite Christmas gift. But jewellery must match both a person's outfit and the current fashion.

While everything points to clean lines and discreet colours in fashion, jewellery by contrast is breaking away and going off in its own direction.

Hamburg  - Packing boxes will always be necessary when moving house, but there may come a time when the need to refurnish and redecorate with every move is a thing of the past.

Mobile prefabricated homes that move with their owner are seen by some as an architectural concept with potential. And these moveable structures already are available today.

Flexibility and mobility increasingly are big issues for people looking to invest in a home. Christoph Windscheif of the association of prefabricated homes in Bad Honnef, Germany, speaks of an "ambitious vision of the future" as a factor.

"There certainly are people who can imagine that type of modern nomadic life," said Windscheif.