Merkel Detours to Pittsburgh as Steinmeier Makes Final Appeals

Categories: World| Sep 21, 2009

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- With Germans heading to the pollsin five days and her opponent criss-crossing the nation,Chancellor Angela Merkel is taking a trans-Atlantic detour -- toPittsburgh. Merkel is joining world leaders at the Group of 20 summitto shape new rules ...Read More

Teen wounds 8 students, 1 teacher at German school

Categories: World| Sep 17, 2009

ANSBACH, Germany — An 18-year-old armed with an ax, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany on Thursday, injuring eight pupils and a teacher before police shot and arrested him, authorities said. As the mayhem erupted on ...Read More

Police: Axe-wielding teen wounds 8 students, 1 teacher at his high school in Germany

Categories: Top Stories, World| Sep 17, 2009

ANSBACH, Germany - An 18-year-old armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany on Thursday, injuring eight pupils and a teacher before police shot and arrested him, authorities said. As the mayhem erupted on ...Read More

Police: Ax-wielding teen wounds 8 students, 1 teacher at his high school in Germany - Fort Lauderdale Sun

Categories: World| Sep 17, 2009

ANSBACH, Germany (AP) - An 18-year-old student armed with an ax and knives lobbed Molotov cocktails at his high school in southern Germany on Thursday, wounding eight pupils and a teacher before he was shot and arrested by police. The teenager ...Read More

9 children hurt in Germany school attack

Categories: Top Stories, World| Sep 17, 2009

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A teenage student wielding an ax attacked several children at his school in southern Germany on Thursday, wounding nine before he was arrested, police said. Two children were seriously wounded, as was the attacker, who was shot ...Read More

Attacker wounds 9 students at German school

Categories: Top Stories, World| Sep 17, 2009

An 18-year-old student armed with an ax and Molotov cocktailsattacked his high school in southern Germany on Thursday, woundingnine pupils, police said. The teenager entered the Carolinum High School in the Bavariantown of Ansbach where he threw two of the explosive ...Read More

Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known

Categories: SciTech| Jun 24, 2009

BERLIN – A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a ...Read More

Backgrounder: Fatal school shootings in recent years

Categories: Most Viewed, Top Stories| Mar 11, 2009

Major school shootings in Germany in recent years Gunman killed by police, killing 15 at German school School shooting shocks Germany, chancellor appalled BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- A teenager opened fire at a high school in southern Germany on Wednesday, shooting and ...Read More

German school shooting death toll rises to 17, Chancellor calls it ...

Categories: Top Stories, World| Mar 11, 2009

An armed police officer stands in front of the Albertville school in Winnenden near Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Police say a gunman dressed in a black combat uniform opened fire at a high school in southern Germany on ...Read More