Germany's troubled BayernLB bank, which became the first to request help from a government bailout plan, has seen its need for fresh capital climb to euro10 billion ($12.9 billion), officials said Friday. Officials in Bavaria, whose state government ...

German historians have started compiling a central register of 9,000 mentally ill people murdered as part of the Nazis' euthanasia policy, most of whom were previously unidentified. More than 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during a ...

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The German government's 500 billion- euro ($672 billion) bank rescue plan cleared both houses of parliament after Chancellor Angela Merkel headed off a revolt by state premiers over their financial contribution. The rescue plan ...

Tickets for the Fifa World Cup 2006 have today gone on sale online, sparking a clamour among football fans to enter the lottery for the in-demand tickets while raising fresh fears relating to crowd safety and leading to criticism of one major sponsor ...

The Milwaukee Bucks announced the hiring of a new athletic trainer and a new director of basketball operations Tuesday, and learned that forward Yi Jianlian had received only a smattering of votes from the league's coaches in the balloting for the ...

There’s nothing quite like a Gershwin revival to brighten the musical scene. Ten years ago, 42nd Street Moon presented a staged concert version of “Girl Crazy,” the 1930 hit with music by George Gershwin , lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by ...

In a community built by larger-than-life characters and glorified carnival barkers, this is the quietest big story I've written in a long time. Between sips at Starbucks, Kris Engelstad McGarry politely tells me I won't be interviewing the inspiring ...

Last week witnessed unprecedented events in the history of post-war Germany. The Bundestag (federal parliament) agreed on a €500 billion bailout package for the banks last Friday morning. The so-called "Financial Market Stabilisation Law" passed ...

The figures are unimaginable. Untold billions are being wielded by unscrupulous speculators to make massive gains in stock markets and off the backs of commodities, like food and oil. I used to call it casino capitalism until I realized that gambling ...