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German Girl Saddles Up Her Cow and Rides It Like a Horse

When Regina Mayer's parents told her she couldn't have a horse, Mayer didn't get angry. She had a cow instead. That cow would be Luna, the friendly bovine Mayer has trained into the riding companion of her dreams, according to The Associated Press. "She thinks she's a horse," Mayer told the AP from her family's farm in...

Strong Earthquake Strikes Greek Island of Crete

ATHENS, Greece -- A strong earthquake struck the southern Greek island of Crete Friday, rattling buildings as far away as Egypt and Turkey. Local police said they had no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and struck off the southern coast of Crete at 4:29 p.m. (1329 GMT,...

Experts: German Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Drowned

BERLIN -- Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut died from drowning after collapsing due to swelling of his brain and falling into his enclosure's pool, an expert said Friday. Pathologist Claudia Szentiks said a necropsy of the four-year-old bear who died suddenly two weeks ago showed he was suffering from encephalitis, an...

The Lowdown on Germany's Crazy Upside-Down House

Who says it's hard to flip real estate in this economy? In this house, you walk on the ceilings -- but you feel like you're bouncing off the walls. Visitors to Bispingen, Germany, have a unique chance to get a new perspective on the world when they tour an upside-down residence dubbed the "Crazy House." The off-kilter...

Some 200,000 in Germany Protest Nuclear Power

BERLIN -- Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said. In Berlin alone more than 100,000 took to the capital's streets to urge Germany's leaders to immediately abolish...

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Bonds Are a 'Safe' Investment: A Big Lie Gets Even Bigger

About a month ago, bemused investors awoke to news that over in Germany, the government had just sold $5 billion worth of Eurobonds that paid an average interest rate of -- get this -- negative 0.0122%. In other words, if you bought one of these bonds for 100.01 euros, in six months you return it to the government and...

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02/10/12 , Bob "Arjay""Tommy" Source: Prince Albert Daily Herald - Prince Albert - SK - Canada Born 1921 in Henribourg, passed away 2011 in Ottawa.
02/10/12 Research on Phagocytosis Described by Scientists at... Source: NewsRx Investigators publish new data in the report "Proinflammatory stimuli enhance phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by neutrophil granulocytes. 'Recently, we have reported that, in addition to macrophages, also neutrophil granulocytes can phagocytose apoptotic neutrophils. Based on this finding, we hypothesized that 'cannibalistic' neutrophils at sites of acute infection/inflammation play a major role in the clearance of apoptotic neutrophils," researchers in Lubeck, Germany report.
02/09/12 State, Bavaria focus on ties Source: The New Indian Express Karnataka, along with the State of Bavaria of Germany, is going to participate in the regional leaders conference meet slated to be held at Sao Paulo (Brazil) in April, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said on Thursday.
02/09/12 Schaeuble Signals Germany Open to Changes to... Source: Bloomberg.com Germany may be willing to study revising the terms of Portugal (EUBDPORT) 's bailout, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his Portuguese counterpart in Brussels in a conversation picked up by Portuguese television.
02/09/12 Germany ready to revisit Irish bailout terms Source: Irish Examiner Germany signalled it would be ready to adjust the Irish and Portuguese programmes once the second bail-out deal for Greek is finalised.