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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens to the debate on the eurozone bailout fund in the Bundestag, the lower legislative house, at the Reichstag in Berlin on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

    Germany keeps alive hopes for euro's future

    Germany kept alive hopes that the 17-nation euro currency can survive the sprawling debt crisis when lawmakers in Europe's largest economy on Thursday voted overwhelming in favor of expanding the powers of the eurozone's bailout fund.

  • Kati Brunne eats a cucumber during a cucumber and tomato eating contest in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on June 14, 2011. Brunne won the contest, which was organized by the German Vegetarian Association. (Associated Press)

    New E. coli sicknesses declining

    The number of people falling sick as a result of E. coli contamination has slowed to a trickle, Germany's national disease control center said Tuesday, even as the death toll from the outbreak rose by one Tuesday to 37.

  • New E. coli sicknesses declining

    The number of people falling sick as a result of E. coli contamination has slowed to a trickle, Germany's national disease control center said Tuesday, even as the death toll from the outbreak rose by one to 37.

  • Germany presses to find cause of E.coli outbreak

    Was it a restaurant in Luebeck? A port festival in Hamburg? Or a yet-unknown site, still churning out deadly E. coli infections?

  • E. coli cucumbers may be in Austria, Hungary

    Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria are being recalled from stores in Austria and the Czech Republic to prevent the spread of a deadly outbreak, officials said Sunday.

  • 2 more Germans die of E.coli infection

    Government officials say two more people have died of a bacterial outbreak allegedly caused by contaminated Spanish cucumbers _ bringing the number of deaths to nine.

  • FILE - In this March 23, 2007 file photo, Knut, the polar bear cub, has its first public appearance with his keeper in the Berlin zoo. A Berlin zoo official says world-famous polar bear Knut has died.  Bear keeper Heiner Kloes said that four-year-old Knut died Saturday afternoon March 19, 2011 while alone in his compound. He says the cause is not yet clear. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski, File)

    Berlin zoo: Beloved polar bear Knut has died

    Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut, an international star who as a cuddly, fluffy cub graced magazine covers, movies and merchandise, died Saturday. His death at the young age of four took zookeepers and animal experts by surprise.

  • Afghan police man stand near guard near the wreckage of a suicide attackers vehicle in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb, 18, 2011. A suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives in the eastern Afghan city of Khost Friday morning, killing at least eight people and injuring scores of others, police said. (AP Photo/ Nishanuddin Khan)

    Man in Afghan uniform fires on Germans, kills 2

    A man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on German troops working on a vehicle in northern Afghanistan Friday, killing two soldiers and wounding at least eight others, officials said.

  • According to the German news agency Dapd, a 48-year-old man who allegedly fathered children with his stepdaughter and abused his stepson and daughter, lived in this house in Fluterschen, Germany. (AP Photo/Dapd, Sascha Ditscher)

    Horrific details emerge in German incest case

    The father first raped his daughter on her 12th birthday, after the other children had left her party, prosecutors said as a stomach-turning incest case opened in western Germany.

  • Thousands cheer Vettel in German capital

    Thousands of fans have cheered the return of Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel to Berlin.

  • Nadja Benaissa, singer of German girl band "No Angels", sits in a courtroom in Darmstadt, Germany, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. The German singer is  accused of causing bodily harm by having unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIV-positive.  The closing arguments will be held later the day. The verdict is expected on Thursday. (AP Photo/Boris Roessler, pool)

    German prosecutors: No jail time for HIV singer

    German prosecutors and defense attorneys on Wednesday recommended no prison time for a girl-band singer accused of causing bodily harm to her ex-boyfriend by allegedly infecting him with HIV.

  • Former German FM to donate kidney to his wife

    Germany's main opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Monday he will take a few weeks off politics so he can donate a kidney to his wife.

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) speaks with (from left) Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a round-table meeting at a European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

    EU to publish potential bank losses

    European Union leaders agreed Thursday to go public with the results of "stress tests" checking the stability of the bloc's banks, an attempt to restore confidence to markets spooked since Greece demanded a bailout to prevent an embarrassing default.

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