In the German town of Ludwigsburg, president Horst Koehler and other state leaders attended a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of an agency that has helped to hunt down Nazi criminals.

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At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday, issues like a membership plan for Ukraine and Georgia are on the agenda ? as is the question of whether to thaw relations with Russia after its invasion of Georgia.

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Twelve days of UN talks have begun in Poznan, Poland, aimed at paving the way to a new global pact on climate change that would replace the Kyoto protocol and that be signed in Copenhagen next year.

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The German Christian Democrats open their Party congress this Monday. Delegates will be largely focussing on next September?s general election. Controversy over tax cuts is set to be a major topic.

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Almost 60,000 Germans live with HIV in Germany. When the AIDS epidemic first broke out in the 1980s, contracting the disease was tantamount to a death sentence.

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Voters in Switzerland have overwhelmingly backed a heroin prescription program, aimed at providing addicts with a legal drug source. But the Swiss also rejected a proposal to decriminalize cannabis.

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Switzerland became the first country in the world 14 years ago to offer heroin on prescription. The scheme started in Zurich and in 1999, it was introduced in all Swiss cities as a ten-year-long experiment.

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In the Gulf of Aden, the number of maritime hijackings has soared recently as pirates find it a lucrative source of income. We take a closer look at the parties involved and how they are profiting from piracy.

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Three German intelligence agents who were accused of bombing an EU office in Kosovo have returned to Germany. A judge in Pristina said there was no evidence connecting them with the incident.

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Major drug companies are deliberately delaying or blocking the entry on to European markets of cheaper generic medicines, says the European Commission.

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An organisation set up by former neo-Nazis to help others leave the far-right scene is about to lose government funding.

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Romanians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday which has turned into a close race between centrist and left-wing opposition parties. But there are fears that few young people will bother to vote.

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Germany erects its first control memorial to German soldiers who have lost their lives since the second World War.

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The International Energy Agency wants Syria to clear up suspicions that it is trying to build a nuclear reactor.

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Europeans in Mumbai can go to any EU nations' Consulate for assistance.

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Polish citizens? worries are growing since Russia has warned that it would deploy more missiles in the enclave of Kaliningrad in response to the shield on the Polish side.

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The Czech Constitutional Court met to deliver a crucial verdict on the future of the European Union's reform treaty and finally ruled that the Lisbon Treaty does not violate the Czech Constitution.

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The European Commission?s plan intends to help EU countries to tackle a deep and potentially extended recession.

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Somaly Mam was sold into prostitution by her grandfather when she was 16. However, she was one of the lucky ones who, after years of being raped and abused, found a way out.

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