NYON, Switzerland - The prospect of an all-German or an all-Spanish European Champions League final next month remains alive after Friday's semi-final draw.But with the Spanish and German teams kept apart when European football's governing body UEFA made the draw for the last four, the Wembley ...

BERLIN - The region of Bremen in northern Germany on Friday said it would be the second of the country’s 16 states to recognise Muslim holidays. “I am delighted because Islam and Muslims are part of our city and part of our life,” said the mayor of the city state, Jens Boehrnsen, ...

SIALKOT - A group of visiting German journalists on Friday pledged to make an all-out effort to promote the soft image of Pakistan globally to remove misconceptions about the country.The delegation included Miss Kerstin Nyst, Alexander W. Bauersfeld, Marcus Schwarz, Arnulf Stoffel, Ronny Rutiling, ...

FAISALABAD - German scientists have stressed the need for developing scientific research with a special focus on unprivileged class so as to alleviate poverty from across the world. Dr Bernhard Tischbein and Dr Christopher Conard met with University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof ...

CAIRO - A German couple and their child drowned in a tourist submarine accident on Thursday off Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, security officials told AFP. The victims were a German man, his wife and child, they said. Thirteen other tourists of different nationalities were rescued. ...

The police and sensitive agencies during a joint raid at a house here in Peshawar on Saturday arrested three German nationals.According to details, the police and sensitive agencies personnel team under the supervision of SP Cantt carried out a raid at a house occupied by foreigners located in ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani officials on Monday rejected a German newspaper report that the country's secret service spied on German security forces in Afghanistan. Without citing its sources, mass-selling weekly Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday that Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency ...

BEIJING - When it is Germany against Spain in the Olympic Games, you can almost always take a wager on the former and expect a windfall. Four years ago at Athens, Spain was not allowed a podium spot by Germany and this time its ambition of winning gold was reduced to silver. Despite threatening to ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Germans prepared to celebrate into the night on Thursday after their football team beat fancied Portugal to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2008. From reserved Hamburg in the north to classy Munich in the south via bohemian Berlin fans took to the streets sounding their klaxons and ...

BASEL (Switzerland) (AFP) - Germany's Euro 2008 quarter-final win over Portugal was a personal triumph for man-of-the-match Bastian Schweinsteiger, but the plaudits had to be shared with coach Joachim Loew, who comfortably won the tactical battle with Luiz Felipe Scolari. Schweinsteiger revealed ...

KLAGENFURT (Austria) (AFP) - Croatia need to put together a much more convincing performance against Euro 2008 co-favourites Germany here on Thursday if they are to really reflect the confidence their coach Slaven Bilic has that they can win the title. Croatia did win their first match but ...