The German Football Federation and the German Football League are to create a task force to probe a betting scandal which has rocked European football. Some 200 games are under suspicion, 32 of them are German.

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Scientists working on the world's largest atom smasher say they are now circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time after more than a year of repairs.

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Arigona Zogaj is an improbable celebrity in conservative Austria. A photogenic, fluent German-speaking, 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Kosovo, she was hidden by a Catholic priest, threatening suicide if deported.

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A Polish court has ruled that a family in the north of the country is to be evicted, in order for the house to be returned to the former owner, an ethnic German. Cause for angry protests from the nationalist opposition.

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The US TV channel ?Baby First?, broadcasting from Britain to France, targets toddlers ? and has caused a massive controversy about whether children under the age of three should be allowed to watch TV.

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Europe?s biggest match-fixing scandal to date is currently unfolding. 200 soccer matches in nine countries appear to have been fixed, with coaches, players and referees involved.

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Left-wing lawyers, Horst Mahler, Otto Schily and Hans-Christian Stroebele, went on to pursue very different careers, as Holocaust denier, interior minister, and conscience of the Green party, respectively.

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While much has been achieved over the last two decades, UNICEF says huge challenges remain, an estimated one billion children still lack the basics to ensure their survival and development.

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A German shipyard has unveiled what it claims to be the world's largest seagoing vessel powered by the sun - a catamaran with solar panels generating 1.3 megawatts of electricity.

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German government ministers, cloistered in a country retreat outside Berlin, have agreed to a 12-month extension of the German military in Afghanistan and to bring down public debt after record state borrowing in 2010.

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Russia and the European Union stressed their unity and steered away from open disputes at a summit in Stockholm as they sought each other's backing on the issues of trade and climate change.

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The UN world summit on food security has ended with the chief UN official saying he was disappointed by the lack of commitment shown by world leaders to eradicating hunger.

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One week after the suicide of national goalkeeper Robert Enke, Germany's national team were back at training on Tuesday, ahead of a friendly against Ivory Coast.

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Some 10,000 people gathered in central Prague to retrace a student march which triggered the fall of communism in former Czechoslovakia exactly 20 years ago.

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On the fringes of the UN "hunger" summit in Rome, a street theatre group of African and Asian farmers act out the injustices of 'land-grabbing' in which rich companies buy up cheap land in developing countries.

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Austria is being hit by student protests about underfunding and overcrowding at universities, echoing similar protests in Germany.

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The Dutch government has approved a bill to impose a tax on drivers for every kilometre they are on the road, which it says will reduce traffic jams, fatal accidents and carbon emissions.

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The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from school classrooms in Italy has touched a nerve in Poland, reopening rifts over Catholic influence in Polish society.

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Germans are crossing the border into Austria to get illicit swine flu jabs. Austria's immunisation program is normally only available to residents, but health workers have little time to do background checks.

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