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Bieber’s pet monkey becomes German property
Justin Bieber’s pet monkey, which was seized by German customs in March, officially became German property Tuesday after the Canadian pop sensation failed to claim the animal, officials said. Mally, a capuchin monkey, is temporarily in an animal refuge in the southern city of Munich where he was visited Tuesday…
Revealed: Big Pharma tested dangerous new drugs on unknowing Germans
Western drug companies tested pharmaceuticals on more than 50,000 people in the former communist East Germany, often without the knowledge of patients, several of whom died, the Spiegel news weekly reported Sunday. Some 600 clinical trials were carried out in more than 50 hospitals until the 1989 fall of the…
Germany probes suspected potato price fixing
The chips are down as Germany launches a probe into suspected potato price fixing over the past decade which may have cost consumers and farmers hundreds of millions of euros, according to local media. The culprits face a roasting after the national competition regulator has investigated allegations that at least…
Trial of neo-Nazi mass murderer delayed over press access issues
The start of the most high-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany’s history was delayed from this week after judges announced Monday an overhaul of rules giving media access. Proceedings were to have begun Wednesday against a woman accused of being part of a far-right killer cell blamed for 10 murders.…
German villagers unafraid of ‘Big Bad Wolf’
Thirteen years after wolves returned to an east German village, its residents have not only overcome age-old fears to live peacefully alongside the predator but even come to enjoy the benefits of its presence. Nestled in the forested Saxony countryside in the land that bore the storytelling Brothers Grimm, Rietschen…
Germany set to approve fracking ‘with conditions’
The German government is prepared to give the go-ahead to the revolutionary oil and gas technique of “fracking” in Germany, but under certain conditions, according to a ministry paper obtained by AFP on Tuesday. Under a draft proposal by the economy and environment ministries, fracking would be banned in areas…
Germany clears genetic testing of embryos after ethics debate
Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday gave its green light to testing embryos after in vitro fertilisation in certain cases after a passionate ethical debate in the country on the issue. The Bundesrat voted to allow so-called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos when one of the partners had a…
Comic novel imagining Hitler return is bestseller in Germany
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a novel that imagines his return to modern-day Berlin has become a bestseller in Germany, though a comedy about the Fuehrer is not to everyone’s taste. Instead of committing suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945, in “He’s Back” (Er Ist…
Germany moves to toughen bestiality laws
BERLIN — Germany is set to tighten its laws against bestiality in a bid to improve animal welfare, a lawmaker involved in drafting the legislation said on Monday. Bestiality was removed from Germany’s penal code in 1969 and since then has only been against the law if “significant harm” is…
Britain and Germany clash on road ahead for EU
The foreign ministers of Britain and Germany clashed on their vision for Europe on Tuesday, with William Hague saying Berlin’s integration drive was alienating many in the bloc. Hague told a foreign policy forum in Berlin that the push for ever-greater coordination in areas like the banking sector and national…
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