According to German officials, a 72-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly twice turned off a hospital roommate’s ventilator because she didn’t like the noise it made. Following the incident on Tuesday night at a hospital in Mannheim, the woman … Continue reading Hospital Patient Arrested After Disconnecting Another Patients Ventilator Because of its “Noise”
A tornado “cut a path of destruction” through different towns in western Germany during heavy storms on Friday, injuring 43 people. The tornado ripped off roofs and flung debris for kilometres, according to police in Paderborn. They reported ten people … Continue reading West German Tornado Injures 43 people, and kills one.
She saw her country grow and was one of the most powerful women in the world. President’s and Prime Ministers called to her like a friend. Her country almost led the way in Europe and she always remained humble and … Continue reading Angela Merkel – “So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen my dear!”
The finance ministers meeting today at the G20 held in Moscow have today pledged to ensure that multinational companies will no longer be able shifting profits from a home country to pay less tax elsewhere – the aim is to prevent tax avoidance by large companies. France, Britain and Germany have been the main proponents seeking radical changes to existing european legal loopholes and members of these countries also promised to refrain devaluing their currencies to gain economic advantage; which could cause a “currency war”. The fears had been sparked by Japan’s recent policies, which have driven down the value of the yen, aiding its exporters. … Continue reading G20 To Tackle Tax Avoidance
The major E3+3 countries of the world (including the UK, US, China, France, Germany and Russia) will be meeting today in Instanbul with the Iranian Government once again to discuss and have an offer of an assurance over any proposed nuclear programme that Iran may be conducting. This follows a meeting of the E3+3 at the UN General Assembly in September 2009. At that meeting Iran’s nuclear programme was found a matter of concern to the E3+3 countries as they said in their statement – those talks basically wanted to see Iran to implement all measures required by the IAEA … Continue reading E3+3 Talks on Iran
Yvonne the cow that escaped from a farm in Bavaria in May has been caught and thankfully the cow that stole the hearts of the German people in her fight for animal liberation is now at Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary where activists originally paid €600 to prevent her slaughter. Although initially there was a €10,000 reward placed on her capture where she managed three months on the run before a farmer reported seeing her on his land. Konrad Gutmann, 46, claimed the €10,000 reward by the German tabloid Bild – after seeing what he thought was a lonely animal wandering … Continue reading German Cow is Free at Last!
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