• Bayern Munich and Germany legend evaded €27.2m in tax • 62-year-old won World Cup in 1974 Uli Hoeness, the former Germany international and president of Bayern Munich, was sentenced to three-an-a-half years in prison on Thursday for seven cases of tax evasion amounting to €27.2m (£22.7m). Hoeness's legal team has a week to appeal against the sentence. The 62-year-old had admitted to tax evasion...
Billionaire speculator cautions over job losses but says Europe could still be pulled apart by deflation and slow growth Billionaire speculator George Soros on Wednesday waded into the political row about Britain's membership of the EU with a warning that a decision to quit would lead to an exodus of foreign-owned companies. Soros said the argument for Britain remaining part of the EU could be summed...
New publication shows highly influential philosopher saw 'world Judaism' as driver of dehumanising modernity He is widely regarded as one of Europe's most influential 20th century philosophers whose writings inspired some of the important thinkers of the modern era. But almost four decades after Martin Heidegger's death, scholars in Germany and France are asking whether the antisemitic tendencies...
The app stores its database on an easily-accessible SD card with poorly secured encryption keys, according to a Dutch security researcher. By Alex Hern Alex Hern ...
• Seven-time world champion's family confident over recovery • German has spent almost 11 weeks in hospital Michael Schumacher is showing "small, encouraging signs" following his skiing accident and his family remains confident he will "pull through and will wake up". With the new F1 season just around the corner, and with speculation growing about Schumacher's condition given he has now spent almost...
Interpol releases image of 19- and 29-year-old who were on flight MH370 using stolen Austrian and Italian documents Two passengers on the disappeared Malaysian Airways flight MH370 who were travelling on forged passports were Iranians with no links to terror, Interpol has revealed. The international police organisation has released an image of the two men, identified as 19-year-old Pouria Nour Mohammad,...
Karl May museum near Dresden accused of disrespecting native American Ojibwa tribe by displaying its members' remains He is the man who started a long-running German fascination with the Wild West. But now a museum dedicated to the adventure novelist Karl May is accused of disrespecting the wishes of the tribes that once inspired his stories by refusing to hand over a collection of native American...
Former football hero put more than €33m in undeclared income in a Swiss bank account – Angela Merkel 'disappointed' in him Uli Hoeness, president of European champions Bayern Munich, admitted on Monday to dodging millions of euros in taxes through an undeclared Swiss bank account. The revelations came at the opening of a trial that could lead to jail for one of the most powerful figures in German...
David Cameron to make speech launching Spectrum Strategy, where unused digital TV bandwidth can be used by business Britain aims to double to £100bn by 2025 the amount of economic benefit generated by making full use of unused "white space" digital frequencies, David Cameron will pledge on Monday. In a speech to the CeBIT 2014 trade fair in Hanover, the prime minister will declare that Britain is...
s car produces no carbon emissions (so long as the electricity that charges its batteries is also low carbon). Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, announced it would invest in a $4bn-$5bn "gigafactory" doubling the world's production of lithium-ion batteries . These power your mobile phone, but also Tesla's high-end luxury electric cars. The objective is to cut battery prices by 30% in three years,...
s career. Bayern Munich, the football club that has employed him since 1970 – first as player, then as general manager, and now as president – is enjoying its most successful spell in decades. Bayern lead the Bundesliga by a street and could be crowned the champions of Europe for a second successive season – all with no small thanks to one of the last old-fashioned patriarchs in European football,...
‘He joked about never going hungry in the Australian outback because of the amount of flies you can eat,’ says police inspector ...
s rapid rise up the leagues is a worry for the established order but far worse is the threat to the game's structure and its cherished membership model Only 30 fans had made the 500km journey from Burghausen in deepest Bavaria, but they had rehearsed their own choreography. Just before kick-off, supporters of the bottom-placed club in the German third division held up pieces of cardboard that spelled...
re a 16th century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you're leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or settling a score with a rival nobleman. What's a guy looking for a tactical edge to do? The answer, of course, is rocket cats. Fanciful illustrations from a circa-1530 manual on artillery and siege warfare seem to show jetpacks strapped to the backs of cats and doves,...
s emergency EU summit in Brussels. The prime minister, who had feared German nerves about confronting Vladimir Putin would weaken the EU's resolve, returned home satisfied that Europe and the US are sending powerful signals to Moscow. Speaking at the conclusion of the summit, Cameron said: "We know from our history that turning a blind eye when nations are trampled over and their independence trashed...
s playful interest in mathematics gets its own exhibition at museum in his home town of Eisenach The 329th birthday of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach may not strike most people as a very significant anniversary, but for Bach scholars, 21 March this year will be a very special day. Some researchers claim that the Baroque composer had an obsession with the number 14, the sum of the numeric value...
Obama orders restrictions on top Russian officials as Crimean parliament announces referendum to join Russia Paul Lewis Dan Roberts Ian Traynor Shaun Walker ...
s military occupation, Crimean government announces 16 March vote on region's status As EU leaders huddled in Brussels on Thursday morning for an emergency summit to address the Ukraine crisis, the Crimean regional government took matters into its own hands and announced it would hold a referendum on whether the region should officially join Russia on 16 March. At a press conference in Simferopol,...
John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov to resume talks on Thursday as pressure grows on EU to pass punitive measures against Moscow Ian Traynor Paul Lewis Kim Willsher ...
s short-term hard power collides with European longer-term soft power and leaves the EU looking weak and feckless. The Italians and the French do not want to punish Putin. The Swedes and the east Europeans take a hard line. The British government is worried about the impact on the City of London and losing the capital's big-spending oligarchs. German industry is lobbying strongly against imposing sanctions...