Bayern stay top as Schalke held in Hamburg

2010-03-21T12:15:25Z

<div><p>Schalke missed the chance to go top of the Bundesliga after being held to a 2-2 draw at Hamburg on Sunday, leaving Bayern Munich top despite their defeat on Saturday at Eintracht Frankfurt.</p><p>Substitute

Defeat is not a crisis for Bayern's van Bommel

2010-03-20T23:15:41Z

<div><p>Bayern Munich captain Mark van Bommel insisted Saturday's shock defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt 'is not the end of the world' as the German giants lost for the first time in 20 league games.</p><p>Bayern's last league defeat was back in September 2009, but after Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich suffered their first defeat in 20 league games on Saturday after conceding two late goals in a shock 2-1 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt.</p><p>Bayern looked to be cruising to a 1-0 win after Miroslav Kl...

Bayern Munich begin their trophy bid

2010-03-19T20:15:53Z

<div><p>Bayern Munich begin their 'three weeks of truth' on Saturday against Eintracht Frankfurt with the Bundesliga leaders still bidding for three trophies.</p><p>Bayern face Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, then title-rivals

Business events scheduled for the coming week

2010-03-19T13:15:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week</div><div><p>SATURDAY, March 20</p><p>LONDON — Strikes set to begin for BA cabin crew</p><p>MONDAY, March 22</p><p>NEW YORK — Tiffany & Co. releases quarterly financial results.</p><p>BRUSSELS — ECB's FDIC reports on bank closings.</p><p>BEIJING — Commerce Ministry news conference on Chinese-US trade.</p><p>FRANKFURT/COLOGNE (Reuters) - The tussle over German generic drugs maker Ratiopharm is drawing to a close as the three remaining contenders square off in the final round of bidding, sources close to the deal told Reuters on Wednesday.</p><p>

Germany Fraport

2010-03-11T01:45:41Z

FILE - In this July 28, 2004 file picture a plane takes off from the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. German airport operator Fraport AG says its February group passenger level increased 3 percent to 4.6 million people from a year earlier. The Frankfurt-based company said Wednesday March 10, 2010 its main Frankfurt Airport saw a 1.1 percent decline ...

European stocks fall as markets mark dark anniversary

2010-03-09T04:15:52Z

<div><p>Europe's leading stock markets dropped in morning trade on Tuesday as investors reacted to poor earnings news on the grim anniversary of global indices striking multi-year low points.</p><p>London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.56 percent to 5,575.28 points, Frankfurt's Europe's main stock market dipped on Wednesday as investors tracked the latest developments surrounding Greece's debt crisis and digested economic and earnings data.</p><p>In morning trading, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 0.05 percent to 5,481...

Deutsche Boerse to change Frankfurt floor trading

2010-03-02T06:00:29Z

<div id="subtitle">German stock market Deutsche Boerse to change Frankfurt floor trade by 2012</div><div><p>Deutsche Boerse AG is changing the way it operates floor trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, introducing specialist traders and the JFK Airport most popular destinations include West Coast cities, Caribbean</div><div><p>Delays are expected at John F. Kennedy International when the airport's main runway is shutdown for four months of repairs starting March 1.</p><p>Here's a breakdown of the most popular dest...

GERMANY WEATHER STORM

2010-03-01T01:16:59Z

Dark clouds are seen over the skyline during a heavy storm in Frankfurt, central Germany, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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deutscher opernball

2010-02-28T17:47:05Z

Larry Hagman The Deutscher Opernball 2010 Frankfurt, Germany - 27.02.10

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VW 2009 profit stalls, group expects a jumpstart this year

2010-02-26T12:16:31Z

<div><p>Volkswagen, the biggest European carmaker, said Friday that 2009 profit plunged by nearly 80 percent in the global slump but predicted that sales and operating profit would rebound this year.</p><p>VW reported a 79.8 percent drop in net profit to 960 million euros (1.3 billion dollars) on sales that fell by 7.6 percent to 105.2 billion euros.</p><p>Analysts polled by Germany's Commerzbank posts $2.6 billion 4th quarter loss on increase in write-downs</div><div><p>Germany's Commerzbank AG said Tuesday its fourth-quarter loss widened to euro1.9 billion ($2.6 billion) due to write-downs related to bond insurer investments and provisions for bad loans.</p><p>The loss for the final three months of 2009 co...

Striking Lufthansa pilots to suspend their walkout

2010-02-22T15:45:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Lufthansa, striking pilots agree to suspend walkout until March 9, plan talks</div><div><p>Lufthansa and its pilots are set to return to the cockpit after the German airline and a key union agreed to halt a four-day strike that disrupted travelers and was poised to go on through Friday.</p><p>The four-day walkout ended less than 24 hours after it began after two hours in a Lufthansa and pilots agreed Monday to resume talks, ending a one-day strike that grounded almost one half of flights at Europe's biggest airline.</p><p>The strike will be lifted at midnight (2300 GMT on Monday), and talks would resume "immediately and without conditions" a joint statement said.</p><p>A planned four-day strike by about 4,00...

Germany's Lufthansa goes to court to halt pilots' strike

2010-02-22T12:17:05Z

<div><p> German airline Lufthansa went to court Monday to try and halt a strike by about 4,000 pilots that has disrupted more than a third of its flights, as cabin crew at rival British Airways (BA) voted a strike of their own.</p><p>A Lufthansa spokeswoman said that carrier, Europe's biggest by passenger...

Lufthansa goes to court to halt pilots' strike

2010-02-22T11:21:07Z

<div><p>German airline Lufthansa went to court in a bid to halt a strike by some 4,000 pilots that disrupted more than one third of its flights on Monday.</p><p>A Lufthansa spokeswoman said the carrier, Europe's biggest by passenger numbers, asked a Frankfurt court to block the four-day strike from continuing past its first ...

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