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Daring poker heist in German luxury hotel

2010-03-06T11:00:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Daring heist in German luxury hotel: Several armed men storm poker tournament</div><div><p>A heavily armed group stormed a poker tournament in a German luxury hotel Saturday afternoon and made off with a jackpot, a police spokesman said.</p><p>Several participants at the tournament in Berlin's Grand Hyatt hotel we...

Engine had problem on A400M maiden flight: report

2010-02-22T16:07:22Z

<div><p>BERLIN (Reuters) - The Airbus A400M had an engine problem on its maiden flight last month, German magazine Spiegel said in an article on Saturday, citing documents from engine maker Europrop.</p><p>...

EU criticises financial pledges to GM Europe

2010-02-24T02:24:54Z

<div><p>EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen has criticised informal financial pledges to General Motors by countries vying to save jobs at factories belonging to the automaker's European unit.</p><p>"I understand that some countries have already made informal promises. I find that alarm...

Germans ID convert, 27, as terror suspect

2010-02-24T05:12:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Germans identify 27-year-old convert to Islam as terror suspect believed to be in Afghanistan</div><div><p>Authorities have identified a 27-year-old German convert to Islam as an al-Qaida associate suspected of traveling to Afghanistan and planning to attack German targets.</p><p>The report cou...

SPYING IN GERMANY?

2010-02-26T02:48:22Z

<div><h1> SPYING IN GERMANY? </h1><p>As if financial institutions didn't already look bad enough, Deutsche Bank on July 21 confirmed press reports that Frankfurt prosecutors are investigating whether its security department illegally spied on perceived foes. Targets of the espiona...

Twenty-two witnesses in Nazi guard trial: report

2010-02-26T07:34:50Z

<div><p>Prosecution lawyers in Germany have 22 witnesses lined up for the trial of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk starting mid-October, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday.</p><p>The judge in the court in the southern city of Munich...

Germany's biggest bank hired detectives to spy on staff: report

2010-02-26T13:17:31Z

<div><p>Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired detectives to spy on its employees including a member of its supervisory board, managers and a shareholder, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.</p><p>The bank launched an internal inquiry at the end of May into potential brea...

Eddie Bauer files for bankruptcy protection

2010-02-26T19:56:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Eddie Bauer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection</div><div><p>Struggling retailer Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc., which began as a Seattle fishing shop, later outfitted the first American to climb Mt. Everest and made thousands of n...

GERMANY'S DILEMMA

2010-02-27T04:17:19Z

<div><h1> GERMANY'S DILEMMA </h1><p>Is Germany Inc. in worse shape than everyone figured? That's the question plaguing policymakers in Berlin, who earlier this spring set aside $155 billion to assist struggling companies. Despite signs that Hezbollah on Sunday rejected a German magazine report that a UN probe found it was behind the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri as a ploy to influence Lebanon's election just two weeks away.</p><p>"This is a pure fabric...

Meet an art world matchmaker

2010-02-27T07:00:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Summerlin resident provides hotels and other businesses with paintings, prints</div><div><p> Carol Spiegel loves art galleries. She used to own one.</p><p>Today, she’s got thousands of galleries around the country — a few dozen paintings here, a dozen there.</p><p>At the Bellagio Spa Tower, for instance, she a...

Opel/Fiat merger

2009-04-27T07:04:36Z

A 'Fiat Punto' (L) stands next to an 'Opel Meriva' on the car park in front of the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, 27 April 2009. According to online service 'Spiegel Online', San Francisco gay adoption lawyer and dad has been recognized for his tireless commitment to the issue of adoption by gay men and lesbians by the Jewish Family and Children's Service (JFCS), reports gay weekly 'John Grisham (Doubleday)</p><p>2. "Run for Your Life" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Littl...

NATO general sparks row over opium plan: report

2010-03-02T15:10:08Z

<div><p>NATO's supreme commander has sparked a row among top brass with "guidance" for opium dealers in Afghanistan to be killed even without proof of ties to insurgents, a German magazine said Thursday.</p><p>Citing a classified document, Spiegel said that Random House initiated a month and a half ago by new C.E.O. Markus Dohle came one step closer to completion this morning, as the publisher of the company's biggest division—the flagship Random House Publishing Group—sent a memo to staff announcing a new executive structure. </p><p>The length and complexity of the memo—written by RHPG’s...

Can Hyberbaric Oxygen Ease Pressures of War?

2010-03-02T20:56:34Z

<div><p><p>PALM HARBOR, Fla. - Adam Ankarlo fought for 10 months with his Marine battalion in Iraq during Operation Phantom Fury, the largest offensive battle since Vietnam, also known as the 2004 Battle for Fallujah. &...

Spiegel & Grau Acquires Memoir By Augusten Burroughs' Mother: Author to Tell 'Her Own Story Her Way'

2010-03-01T05:40:59Z

<div><p>73-year-old poet Margaret Robison, who was controversially depicted as a negligent lunatic by her son Augusten Burroughs in the book Running With Scissors, has signed with Spiegel &amp; Grau to write a memoir in which she'll tell "her own story her way," according to ...

Deutsche Boerse rebuffs rumors on NYSE talks

2010-03-01T05:47:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Deutsche Boerse rebuffs rumors on NYSE merger talks; flatly declares it has nothing to report</div><div><p>Deutsche Boerse rebuffed rumors that it might join with NYSE Euronext Inc. to create the world's leading s...

Clarification: Doubleday's Broadway Unit Does Have Its Own Marketing and Publicity Staff

2010-03-02T01:33:47Z

<div><p>Pub Crawl this week incorrectly stated that the Broadway Books unit of Random House's Doubleday Group does not employ any marketing people or publicists of its own. In fact, Broadway does have a dedicated team of each, and the article has been changed online to reflect that. </p><p>The assertion was origina...