The former head coach of the African nation of Cameroon, Winfried Schafer, is the man handed the responsibility of reviving Jamaica's bid to qualify for next year's football World Cup in Brazil. Schafer, a German with a wealth of international experience, was introduced to the local public during a news conference here Thursday, reports CMC. Schafer, who coached Cameroon at the 2002 World Cup ...
272297 toppling domino blocks create new world record
Domino fanatics in Germany set multiple world records last Friday, after they toppled a whopping 272,297 blocks. Builders for Sinners Domino Entertainment spent eight days to set up 'Enjoy Your Life,' which was displayed in a Budingen high school sports hall, and took just 10 minutes to be toppled, the New York Daily News reported. The set had one 55,000 segment, which beat the world record ...
Pre-Season Friendly Hannover 2 West Brom 1
A Craig Dawson own goal proved decisive as Hannover secured a 2-1 friendly win over West Brom on Thursday. Dawson diverted Christian Pander's 80th-minute effort past goalkeeper Ben Foster as the Bundesliga side bounced back from a 3-0 defeat at the hands of PSV Eindhoven in their previous pre-season outing. Hannover took the lead midway through the first half thanks to Mame Biram Diouf ...
Facebook Event For NSA Nature Walk Leads To Police Visit For German Man
the degree of NSA access to information held by American technology companies given that foreigners are not granted the same privacy protections as U.S. citizens. Daniel Bangert, a 28-year-old German man, has been following news articles about the Edward Snowden leaks closely. Last month, after discovering that the NSA ...
NSA in bed with Germany and others Snowden
FUGITIVE intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says the US National Security Agency operates broad secret spying partnerships with other Western governments now complaining about its programs, in an interview published yesterday. Snowden said in comments made before his exposure of US espionage practices came to light last month and printed in German news weekly Der Spiegel that NSA spies are ...
Vodafone posts 3.5 drop in sales on tougher competition in Germany
Vodafone Group Plc, the world?s second-biggest wireless carrier, said it posted a drop in sales in the first quarter as the price in Germany weighed on the company?s ...
Ghaddafi thanks Germany Russia and China
Colonel Ghaddafi today in an interview thanked the governments of Germany, Russia and China for opposing a no-fly zone over Libya, promising new oil ...
Federer Struggles to Reach Hamburg Semifinals
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Fognini beats Haas in Germany
HAMBURG, Germany ? Fabio Fognini of Italy beat Tommy Haas for the second time in two weeks to reach the semifinals of the German Tennis Championships on ...
Frankfurt Airport installs donation option on bottle return machine
Aviation security regulations require passengers to dispose of their liquids containers at the security checkpoint. Thus, all bottles and cans - valuable recyclable material - end up in the garbage. Furthermore, the deposit charged on the containers, as required by law, is equally lost. To remedy the situation, Frankfurt Airport has now installed a bottle return machine in Terminal 1 Departures, ...
German finance minister criticism over eurozone role is unfair
German finance minister Wolfgang Schuble sits next to George Osborne at a G20 press conference in Moscow on Friday. Photograph: Kirill ...
Towers Perrin pushes forward in Munich
Financial consultant Towers Perrin has built upon its pension related investment consulting business by forming a new European Investment Consulting Group based in Munich, Germany. Local business practice will be supported by the new centre of investment excellence, and will be lead by Nigel Cresswell, newly appointed principal at Towers Perrin. Cresswell was previously executive ...
Deutsche Bank facing securities action ? EXCLUSIVE
As pressure mounts to patch up the damage caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it has emerged that a securities class action has been brought against European firm Deutsche Bank. Regarding the purchase and sale of residential mortgage backed securities, the case has just begun and is currently pending in New York. Thomas Dubbs, partner at US law firm Labaton Sucharow, has ...
German institutional market opens up
The German institutional market is opening up to non-German players as investors acknowledge that there is excellent investment expertise outside of Germany, despite the fact that German banks and asset managers have a global reputation, according to Olivier Lebleu, managing director EMEA of MFS Investment Management ...
Fidelity International Real Estate Business expands into Germany
Fidelity International?s Real Estate Business is planning to expand into the Continental European market with the opening of a dedicated Fidelity Real Estate Business office in Munich. The new office, which is currently going through its regulatory notifications, will provide a strategic base for Fidelity?s director of European Real Estate, Keith Sutton. From here he will ...
Mercer penetrates German market
IMercer has boosted its presence in the German pensions space with the acquisition of local player Hofer Vorsorge-Management, one of Germany?s leading actuarial and retirement consulting firms. The acquisition, effective from 1 January 2008, has increased Mercer?s German employee base to more than 500 and expanded its reach to five additional offices in Berlin, Karlsruhe, ...
G-REITs open up German market
The German Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is finally on the market, following the German President Horst Kohler?s signing of the G-REIT law at the end of May. The new law ? which will apply retrospectively from 1 January 2007 ? was ratified by the German parliament in March but was not binding until this final stage of the process was complete. It is expected to ...
Friends Provident targets Germany
UK life and pensions provider Friends Provident has entered the German market as part of a long-term development of business in continental Europe. Aiming to bring innovation and flexibility to Germany, the company has partnered with distribution and service business, Financial Partners Business (fpb) AG, to launch the Friends Plan range of pensions, which can be used for personal and ...
Schaeuble says Germany does not want a German Europe
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany does not want a "German Europe" and believes no single country can take a leading role, yet Berlin does have a special responsibility for the path to exiting the euro zone crisis, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wrote in an editorial."It is a completely absurd idea, to think that the Germans want to play the role of leader in EuropeWe do not want ...
Rail shipping opens from China to Germany
A company in China using a daisy-chain of rail links said it was offering railroad shipping service from China to Germany. Zhengzhou International Inland Development Company is offering the service, which will include an 18-day rail trip of about 6,345 miles, the China Daily reported Friday. Shipping costs are expected to be 80 percent less than air freight. It will also be priced $500 less ...
Merkel weathers media grilling on US spying
Nine weeks before elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel weathered a media grilling Friday on US online surveillance and her government's role in it, insisting she was still waiting for answers from Washington.Merkel remains the frontrunner for the September 22 vote, and a new poll suggests the snooping affair is not yet a major election issue -- but the opposition hopes this will ...
Almagro Delbonis advance to semifinals in Hamburg
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) Third-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain came from behind to beat defending champion Juan Monaco of Argentina 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 on Friday for a place in the semifinals of the German Tennis Championships. Qualifier Federico Delbonis of Argentina upset 14th-seeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8), 6-4 to make the semifinals of a tournament for the second time in his ...
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