The Wattolümpiade, Schleswig-Holstein’s annual charity sports festival, begins on Saturday in the mudflats at the mouth of the river Elbe on the North Sea
coast. What do you think Leave your comment below. Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday ruled out raising VAT, or sales tax, should her Christian Democrat party win next month’s general election. Bayern Munich announced on Friday they have completed the signing of Real Madrid winger Arjen Robben for a rumoured fee of &euro25 million. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives will likely take a hit in three state polls Sunday, but she still looks set to cruise to victory in next month’s general election. Greens in Washington DC have founded the first chapter of a German political party in the United States ahead of September’s national election. The grass-roots initiative hopes to encourage absentee voting by Germans abroad. Hannover goalie Robert Enke is set to win the battle to be his country’s number one keeper in next summer’s World Cup finals in South Africa, former shot-stopper Andreas Köpke said Friday.
Former Red Army Faction terrorist Verena Becker was arrested on Friday for her suspected role in the leftist assassination of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback more than 30 years ago