Karlsruhe, Germany - German investigators are checking out a hostile, German-language, Islamist video which recently appeared on a Central Asian website, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe confirmed Tuesday. The 25-minute video appeared to have been made by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The German speakers in the video were thought to be two brothers of Moroccan extraction who grew up in Bonn and hold German citizenship, the Spiegel news website said.

Karlsruhe - German state prosecutors on Thursday charged a suspected al-Qaeda member from Germany on suspicions have having acquired money and equipment and recruiting fighters for the al-Qaeda terror network in Germany.

Omer O., a 31-year-old of Turkish origin, is accused of having recruited members including Bekkay Harrach, a supposed al-Qaeda terrorist who recently threatened Germany in a series of terror videos, according to a statement released Thursday by investigators in Karlsruhe.

Karlsruhe, Germany  - Wireless LAN (WLAN) is a convenient way of surfing the internet. The technology allows users to connect several computers together wirelessly, without an entire jungle of cables running everywhere. Even so, the lack of physical transmission lines also makes it relatively easy for outsiders to tap the network. After all, wireless signals don't stop dead at your front door. Therefore, a few simple steps should be taken to protect a WLAN network against unauthorized access.

Karlsruhe, Germany - The European Court of Justice is to be asked to decide whether online search giant Google is allowed to serve up competitors' advertisements when internet users search for a brand name, German judges said Thursday.

The decision by the German high court in Karlsruhe was closely watched because it is central to Google's business success.

Karlsruhe, Germany - The European Court of Justice may be asked to decide whether a Berlin library owns the copyright to an opera by composer Antonio Vivaldi, German judges said Thursday.

Vivaldi has been dead for 267 years and everything else which the Italian composed is free to perform without paying fees.

But the state-run Berlin Academy of Song says it owns the long- lost Vivaldi opera Motezuma.

The academy published several sheets of the music on its website after rediscovering the opera in its old-music archives in 2002.

Karlsruhe, Germany - Germany is preparing to prosecute the former mayor of a northern Rwandan town on charges of massacring thousands of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide, according to federal prosecutors Tuesday.

The Hutu man, 51, who has emigrated to Germany, was arrested in the Frankfurt area on Monday, one month after Rwanda's own attempts to obtain his extradition from Germany collapsed. Prosecutors identified him only by the initials O R.

He is suspected of either overseeing or calling for multiple murders in both 1990 and 1994.