Beijing - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Beijing - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi announced after talks with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday that the two countries aimed to resume their dialogue on human rig

Koblenz, Germany - German inspectors have seized nearly 3 million litres of wine from Italy and Spain in the past year because it contained added glycerine, a food-safety agency said Friday.

Berlin  - German inflation hit three per cent in May, the nation's statistics office confirmed Friday, amid growing concerns about the threat posed to the world economy by surging consumer prices.

The release of the latest inflation data for Europe's biggest economy came as part of the buildup to next month's Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting in Japan where resurgent inflationary pressures are likely to be a key item on the agenda.

Surging oil and food prices are also the key theme at a G8 finance ministers' meeting in Japan Friday.

Berlin - Interest was limited in the auction in the German city o

Berlin - A German court Thursday handed down a four-year jail term to a depressed landlord in the southern town of Bolsterlang who tried to blow himself up in his pub late one night last year.

The court dropped three charges of attempted murder, ruling the man had been so depressed, and so drunk, that he did not comprehend the danger to three other people in the house at the time.

The explosion, caused after the 65-year-old man opened an 11- kilogram propane bottle, wrecked the house, forcing its subsequent demolition.