Saarbrucken, Germany  - For professional cyclists, track and field athletes and weightlifters the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs is a serious offence.

But amateur athletes and people who are simply dedicated to a chosen sport routinely use pills, powders and injections, according to a German government health report.

Saarbruecken, Germany - A 77-year-old man killed his son, 46, and daughter-in-law, 43, then turned his gun on himself, police in Saarbruecken on the western rim of Germany said Wedneday.