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Episodes
- CTL - Using Coal to make Petrol
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:56:00 +0000
Germany may not be rich in natural resources, but the country?s technology is world-renowned. Nations like China and South Africa, for example, are transforming coal into fuel oil using German refining techniques. - EU and Bush (2mb)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:55:00 +0000
The upcoming US election will see the end of an era in European?American relations. No matter who wins the election, though, ties will undoubtedly improve because under George W. Bush they could hardly have been worse. - Finacial Crisis (2mb)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:54:00 +0000
Global financial turmoil is sending stock markets plummeting around the world. But, while in the developed world economic problems may result in lost jobs, in developing countries they could cost lives. - Peace of Westphalia Prize/ Kofi Annan (2mb)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:28:00 +0000
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has been honored with the Peace of Westphalia Prize. The German prize is awarded to people and institutions that have contributed to peace in the world. - Austrian right-wing politician Haider killed in car accident (2mb)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:25:00 +0000
The 58-year-old Austrian right-wing politician Jörg Haider has died in a car accident near his home in the province of Carinthia. He was known internationally for his controversial populist stands against foreigners. - Zimbabwe Political Spoils (2mb)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:23:00 +0000
In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has given a number of allocated key ministries to his own party. The defiant move threatens an already fragile power-sharing deal reached earlier with the opposition MDC. - Portuguese government rejects proposal to allow gay marriages (2mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:59:00 +0000
Portugal's ruling party and the main opposition shot down Friday the latest proposals to allow same-sex marriages in the Roman Catholic country. - Spain's Santander profits from the crisis (2mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:56:00 +0000
Santander, Europe's second-biggest bank by market value, believes the global financial crisis will create more opportunities for it to buy troubled lenders - Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, is the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. (1mb)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:54:00 +0000
The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Martti Ahtisaari, 71, in recognition for his work to solve conflicts ranging from Northern Ireland to Kosovo - French novelist wins Nobel Literature Prize 2008 (2mb)
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:15:00 +0000
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The 68-year-old, who has already won a number of awards in his native France, was given the prize for his lifetime's work. - German police fights neo-Nazi organisation (2mb)
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:13:00 +0000
German police have raided the homes of about 100 members of a neo-Nazi organisation called ?German Fatherland Youth?, HDJ. The raids were the latest attempt to stop HDJ from spreading far-right ideology to children. - Crisis? Financial Armageddon? Global recession? (2mb)
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:11:00 +0000
What actually caused the financial crisis ? who is to blame ? and what are the longterm implications? Questions that have been occupying the minds of professors and students alike at one of Europe?s top business schools. - ANC ruling party (2mb)
Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:11:00 +0000
Will a split in the ruling party "ANC" be a healthy development for South African democracy? - Afghanistan Exhibition (2mb)
Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:56:00 +0000
When Afghanistan is on the agenda in Germany, it is usually because of war, terrorist attacks and the German involvement in the international military mission present there. - Human Trafficking Moldova (2mb)
Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:53:00 +0000
Moldovan farm laborers, builders, and especially prostitutes are common in Russia, Turkey and in the Balkans, but many are victims of human trafficking. - International Monetary Fund forecast (2mb)
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:56:00 +0000
In a grim Global Financial Stability Report the International Monetary Fund urges central banks to collectively throw life lines to a global banking system that is struggling to stay afloat. - EU finance ministers meeting (2mb)
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:21:00 +0000
EU finance ministers, at a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday, agreed to increase the minimum level of bank deposit insurance across the 27 European Union countries. - Bundeswehr?s mission in Afghanistan (2mb)
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:19:00 +0000
While the German cabinet and the national parliament are both discussing the extension of the Bundeswehr?s mission in Afghanistan, how do soldiers and their families feel about German military involvement? - IUCN releases "Red List" of endangered species (2mb)
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:17:00 +0000
An international study by scientists presented at a meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Spain is warning that a quarter of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction.
