Gerolsteiner scraps cycling team amid doping scandals
German cycling team Gerolsteiner have withdrawn from all racing with immediate effect after the failed drugs test of Austrian rider Bernhard Kohl.
Day: October 14, 2008
Germany
Germany
German Media Roundup: Berlin’s bank rescue bonanza
Germany has coughed up €480 billion for a bank rescue package that is grudgingly accepted as a lesser evil than impending global financial chaos by newspaper editorials in The Local’s media roundup.
Germany
Indian minister’s son suspected of raping German girl in Goa
Police in the Indian resort state of Goa are hunting the son of the local education minister on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old German girl and sending her lewd text messages, they said Tuesday.
Sweden
Feminist boycott demand ‘a storm in a D cup’: Ryanair
Budget airline Ryanair went on the attack on Thursday, mocking Swedish feminist politician Birgitta Ohlsson’s call for a boycott of the airline because of its allegedly sexist advertising practices.
Sweden
Abba’s Björn beats the taxman
ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus has emerged victorious from a protracted battle with the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) over alleged tax evasion.
Germany
Socialists nominate TV cop Sodann for German presidency
Germany’s hard-line socialist Left party on Tuesday named Peter Sodann, a former star of television police drama Tatort, as their candidate for the May 2009 presidential election.
Sweden
Alicia’s father jailed over Cambodia abduction
The father of Alicia Elfversson, the six year-old Swedish girl who he abducted and took to Cambodia, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison by a district court in Gothenburg.
Germany
German women don’t want to cook your dinner
Perhaps it should come as no surprise in a country where politicians debate implementing a "stove premium" for women staying home to raise the kids, but German women are apparently tired of men asking them what’s for dinner.
Sweden
Stockholm weekend going out guide: Friday, Oct 17
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this Friday in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus from Djungeltrumman.
Sweden
Swedish feminist demands Ryanair boycott
Birgitta Ohlsson, one of Sweden’s most prominent feminist politicians, has called for a consumer boycott of Ryanair in response to the discount airline’s attitudes about an ad deemed sexist by a Swedish advertising trade group.
Sweden
Sweden to set up new bank crisis fund
Sweden's Financial Markets Minister Mats Odell said on Tuesday the government was planning to unveil plans for a new fund to help bail out banks in the event of a financial emergency.
Sweden
Investor suffers ‘torturous’ third quarter
Swedish investment giant Investor expressed optimism for the future on Tuesday despite suffering massive third quarter losses.
Germany
German economy ‘on the brink of recession’
Germany’s economy is teetering “on the brink of recession,” according to the autumn forecast of the country’s leading economic institutes published on Tuesday.
Germany
Daimler slashes 3,500 jobs in North America
The German auto and truck maker Daimler said on Tuesday it would cut 3,500 jobs in the United States and Canada in the face of slumping demand.
Germany
Schürrer gets life sentence for murdering Swedish kids
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, Sweden has been sentenced to life in prison.
Germany
Drunk truck driver stops at police station for directions
An intoxicated truck driver stopped by a Kaltenkirchen police station to ask for directions after he lost his way, but left the station without his driver’s license, police in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein reported on Tuesday.
Sweden
Stagnation in your Swedish town? Blame Florida
Which comes first: urban creativity or sound economic growth? Nima Sanandaji aims to separate the chickens from the eggs as he examines the influence on Swedish policy-makers of US urban theorist Richard Florida.
Sweden
Arboga murderer gets life in prison
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Sweden
Winter survival kit – Plan B: Bring a bottle
As autumn slowly turns to winter and the credit crunch makes it trickier to escape for a few days in the sun, wine expert Mark Majzner weighs up the alternatives.
Germany
Franco used Nazi Enigma machines in Spanish civil war
General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces reportedly used Enigma machines, the device Germany's Nazis used to encrypt top-secret messages during World War II, in their battle against Republicans during Spain's civil war.
Sweden
Swedish shares continue to climb
Following Monday’s upward trend, the Stockholm stock exchange had climbed more than 5 percent in the first ten minutes of trading on Tuesday.
Germany
Man and dog fall from Berlin autobahn bridge
Berlin police are searching for witnesses after a man and his dog fell from a Charlottenburg district bridge on Monday, daily Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
Sweden
Charges filed after psychiatric patient’s heroin death
Manslaughter charges have been filed against a 34-year-old man from Borås who helped a woman commit suicide by giving her an overdose of heroin.
Germany
Famed Frankfurt book fair feels financial crisis
The world’s largest book fair will open Tuesday evening in Germany under the cloud of a world financial meltdown that its celebrity invitation list of writers and politicians cannot dispel.
Sweden
Swedish research bolsters protein-Alzheimer’s link
The presence of a certain protein can help protect the elderly from developing Alzheimer’s, according to a group of Swedish researchers at Uppsala University.
Sweden
Poison pies sold in Sweden
A batch of Chinese-made chocolate pies which likely contained the poisonous chemical melamin was delivered to a wholesaler in Stockholm.