Police raid ‘cosmic’ German commune
Around 400 police on Tuesday raided the southern German homes and offices of a guru-like leader of a new age organic farming commune suspected of widespread fraud.
Day: April 8, 2008
Germany
Sweden
Price war erupts over mobile broadband
Some of Sweden's main internet operators have entered into a price war over mobile broadband services.
Germany
Deutche Bahn compromises with Holocaust exhibition
German state railway operator Deutsche Bahn has made a significant compromise in the escalating conflict with Holocaust survivor groups, saying Tuesday they will allow the traveling exhibit "Train of Commemoration" to stop at Berlin's Grunewald station instead of the city's main station.
Germany
Nokia sets date for Bochum plant closure
Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, announced an accord with employees Tuesday on the closure of its plant in Bochum, Germany, including a severance package of €200 million.
Sweden
Reinfeldt rules out Olympic boycott
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has rejected calls for the country to boycott this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing.
Germany
Spring cold snap nips northern Germany
At this time last year beach lovers were already packing their picnic baskets, but this year's long winter continues to disappoint would-be sun worshipers.
Sweden
Tax authorities offer strippers one-time amnesty
Swedish tax authorities have written letters to 340 strippers, some of whom still live with their parents, giving the women a one-time chance to pay back taxes owed on income they earned from dancing.
Sweden
Swedish professor: ‘Bras cause saggy breasts’
A professor at Sweden’s prestigious Lund University warns young girls to put off wearing bras, as doing so too early can lead to low-hanging breasts.
Sweden
Victory for Sweden in EU beer row
Differences in taxes levied by Sweden on beer and wine don’t conflict with EU-regulations, according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice.
Sweden
Man gets nine years for rape of sisters
A 45-year-old man from Västmanland in central Sweden has been jailed for nine years for the repeated assault and rape of two underage sisters.
Germany
Smoking ban drives German barkeeper to suicide
A German barkeeper who hanged himself left behind a suicide note blaming a new public smoking ban for his decision, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Germany
German arachnophobia therapy may become standard
German scientists say they might have found an effective way to help millions of people worldwide who suffer from a debilitating fear of spiders.
Sweden
Swedish and English cider: How do you like them apples?
State alcohol retailer Systembolaget claims to be committed to stamping out underage drinking. Why then does it describe its range of ciders in terms best understood by connoisseurs of children's candy? wonders cider aficionado René Rice .
Germany
Protestors picket Snowflake debut in Nuremberg
Animal rights activists are picketing the Nuremberg zoo on Tuesday to protest what they see as the gratuitous commercialization of polar bear cub Snowflake.
Germany
Woman arrested in Vechta dead baby case
German police have arrested a 24-year-old woman whom they believe to be the mother of a baby found dead in the woods outside Vechta.
Germany
More Germans need second job to survive
A growing number of Germans are forced to take a second job to make end’s meet, according to the Halle Institute for Economic Research.
Germany
Half of German conscripts unfit for Bundeswehr
Almost half of all German men conscripted in the country’s armed forces are unfit to serve, according to report in Handelsblatt on Tuesday.
Sweden
‘Jail men who pay for sex’
People convicted of paying for sex should be awarded prison sentences, according to the Social Democrats' new equality spokesman Claes Borgström.
Sweden
Mother and daughter critically injured in stabbing
A mother and her daughter are in a critical condition after both were stabbed in an apartment in Skogås on the outskirts of Stockholm in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Sweden
Missing girl: truck driver arrested
A 42-year-old man has been detained in connection with the disappearance of 10-year-old Engla Höglund from Dalarna in central Sweden.
Germany
Dessau’s gigantic burial pyramid
Whimsical plans to make depressed eastern Germany economically viable abound, writes AFP's Emsie Ferreira. A fake tropical paradise has already gone up near Berlin and a gigantic pyramid could be next.