Online retailer in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld sees hundreds of workers stage all-day strike over standard wage agreements Online retailer Amazon has been hit by renewed industrial action in two of its distribution centres in Germany. Hundreds of workers in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld staged an all-day strike on Thursday. The same centres had seen strikes last summer and in the run-up to Christmas. Verdi,...
In the third of a new weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the first world war centenary, battle-weary German soldiers rest on the steps of Varreddes town hall during their attempt to take Paris in the opening months of the conflict. The action became known as the first battle of the Marne Photography then and now lets you move through time by tapping or clicking on the historic image...
Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe's largest newspaper publisher, says internet search engine is abusing market dominance The chief executive of Europe's largest newspaper publisher has accused Google of abusing a monopoly position in the digital economy to discriminate against competitors and build up a "superstate". In an open letter to Google's Eric Schmidt published in Wednesday's Frankfurter...
Baron Gunther von Reibnitz, who fled to American-occupied Bavaria with his young family in 1945, joined the Nazi party in 1930 Princess Michael of Kent acknowledged last night that her father had been an officer in Hitler's SS. A brief statement was issued by the Queen's press secretary, Mr Michael Shea, saying that the princess was "shocked" by the revelation in today's Daily Mirror. The...
Join our live coverage as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its report on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions 1.21pm BST Damian Carrington , the Guardian's head of environment, has sent this dispatch from Berlin, where the mood sounds positively jovial - a sharp contrast to the usual feeling of impending armageddon that has accompanied AR5's previous installments. Behind...
German chancellor flies into Greece to champion country's turnaround, but opposition leader calls visit election stunt Angela Merkel flew into Greece on Friday to champion the country's apparent turnaround from eurozone basket case to paragon of austerity, but Greeks remain bitterly divided over the impact of the policies she has foisted on their country. Officially it was all smiles. Under azure blue...
Vintage-style ceramic cups feature an image of a Nazi-era postage stamp that shows a black-and-white profile of Hitler A German furniture store chain has apologised for selling coffee mugs featuring faint portraits of Adolf Hitler it had mistakenly ordered from a Chinese supplier, a news report said on Thursday. The vintage-style ceramic cups feature a faint image of a Nazi-era postage stamp that shows...
Global policymakers should focus on monitoring large sustained external imbalances closely rather than the chorus of criticism When the US treasury recently added its voice to the chorus of critics of Germany's chronic current account surplus, it underscored the deep disagreement over what, if anything, should be done about it. The critics want Germany to increase its contribution to global demand...
Frustration with US government rises over failure to clear up questions about surveillance of German chancellor's phone The US government has refused to grant Angela Merkel access to her NSA file, adding to the growing frustration with Washington over its failure to clear up remaining questions about the monitoring of the German chancellor's phone. The latest information emerged in response to a parliamentary...
Cornelius Gurlitt regains ownership of contentious hoard with onus on prosecutors to show works were stolen from owners Public prosecutors in Augsburg have announced that they will release the artworks they seized from the home of reclusive collector Cornelius Gurlitt two years ago, making the 81-year-old once again the legal owner of the most contentious private collection in recent German history....
The randomness of the fate of a message launched on the world's currents is a symbol of despair and yet of optimism There are few actions that may be done in despair but which still reflect a faith in the future. Sending a message in a bottle that may never arrive anywhere is one of them. Often it appears a last resort. Heart-rending notes from the decks of both the Titanic and the Lusitania have been...
Berlin resident Angela Erdmann speaks of unknown grandfather who threw bottle but died six years before she was born Angela Erdmann never knew her grandfather. He died in 1946, six years before she was born. But on Tuesday she described the extraordinary moment when she received a message in a bottle 101 years after he had lobbed it into the Baltic Sea. Thought to be the world's oldest message in a...
German museum traces postcard inside beer bottle to baker's son Richard Platz and tracks down 62-year-old granddaughter Continue reading... ...
Just as the Pied Piper was used to tempt rats out of Hamelin, German neo-Nazis are now using the Cookie Monster to tempt children over to the far-right. But why? In 1990, Richard Darman, director of the US Office of Management and Budget, described the Cookie Monster as the "quintessential consumer", and in the past he has been forced to adjust his "more is more" approach to snacking...
Almost half of 1,280 pieces found in Munich flat to be held while task force investigates whether they were looted by Nazis Read the original story: police recover modernist art haul Reclusive art collector Cornelius Gurlitt has made an agreement with German authorities to allow investigators to hold onto artworks formerly stashed in his flat that could have been looted by the Nazis, his lawyers said....
Curator, collector and dealer who specialised in outsider art Monika Kinley, who has died aged 88, made a significant contribution to the British art world, as a dealer, collector and curator, championing in particular the cause of outsider artists the self-taught and self-motivated who were not part of the mainstream. It was in 1977, when Monika met Victor Musgrave, a dealer and curator who became...
A British court passes judgement on a man caught handling secret military documents The ex-German officer Schroder, who has been a spy in this country under the name of Gould, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court yesterday to six years' penal servitude and recommended for deportation at the end of the term. His wife was also charged with the same offence (feloniously obtaining plans and other...
Economists predict that at least 200,000 new jobs were created across America last month European stock markets up ahead of non-farm payroll Photos: Anti-austerity protest in Brussels Spanish 5-year bond yields fall below US 12.41pm BST An hour to go until the US jobs data. Eimear Daly, head of market analysis at Monex Europe, says today's non-farm payroll will show whether the recent "soggy"...
Engineers have spent two years creating a robot that emulates the animal's energy-saving jumping style If it looks like a kangaroo and hops like a kangaroo, it could be a sophisticated robot powered by electric drives and pneumatic pumps. After two years of research, German engineers have unveiled a "bionic kangaroo" which closely emulates the marsupial's unique hop. ...
A German company has unveiled a bionic kangaroo which replicates the way the marsupials move. Festo AG's 'BionicKangaroo' is able to store the energy produced in one bounce, using it for the next, something they hope can be applied in a range of other technologies in the future. The model kangaroo can reportedly bounce almost a metre in a single leap...