22.07.2009 - Europe's summer arts festivals stave off finance crisis
At the 43rd Montreux music festival, prices of up to 315 euros ($448) per seat did not prevent tickets for two concerts by Prince from selling out in eight minutes. Organizers said the two-week event on the banks of Lake Geneva was "crowned with success," attracting 10,000 more visitors than last year...

22.07.2009 - German man plans to return to farming after successful double arm transplant
After losing both of his arms when he fell into a harvester in 2002, Karl Merk underwent a 15-hour operation in Munich where a team of 40 surgeons attached a pair of donated arms.  
Following many hours of physiotherapy, the 55-year-old Merk waved his arms and scratched his head with the support of braces or bandages at a press conference on Wednesday...

22.07.2009 - News
Fischer meets Peres on Israel visit

The Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, has held talks in Israel with the country’s president, Shimon Peres. The two men praised relations between their states and agreed there was great room for co-operation in the fields of science and the economy...

22.07.2009 - Seacom project to increase affordable Internet access in Africa
The cost of accessing Internet services in Africa is likely to fall in the near future with work on laying a fiber-optic cable connecting eastern and southern Africa to Europe and Asia set to be completed by Seacom on Thursday.  
The price of access to high-speed telecommunications in Africa is among the highest in the world, a fact which has kept many Africans off the Internet, according to Christoph Stork of Research ICT Africa, which consults on information and communication technology in 19 countries on the continent...

22.07.2009 - Meeting between GM and German government over Opel ends without agreement
Officials of the Economics and Finance Ministries, representatives of the four German states which have Opel plants, and an economic adviser to the Chancellor attended Wednesday's meeting in the chancellery in Berlin. No decisions were taken at the meeting which lasted four hours, but GM must get German government backing for any solution, since all the offers involve German state guarantees...

22.07.2009 - Germans debate retirement at 69
22.07.2009 - Germany, Holland sign southern Afghanistan reconstruction agreement
22.07.2009 - German plans to return to farming after successful double arm transplant
22.07.2009 - German swimming champion Lurz wins another gold medal
22.07.2009 - China to overtake Germany as world's largest exporter
22.07.2009 - Ethnic unrest in Xinjiang - Quo Vadis?
22.07.2009 - EU approves aid for historic Polish shipyard
22.07.2009 - Pope removes paedophile German priest
22.07.2009 - Electric cars start buzzing down Berlin streets
22.07.2009 - Brno keeps century-old promise to restore chapel
22.07.2009 - Academics hold mock execution of “Czech science” in protest at cuts
22.07.2009 - PM Fischer visits Israel
22.07.2009 - Daimler cuts pay levels at subsidiary companies
22.07.2009 - New books to explain new German
22.07.2009 - New Politkovskaya trial ordered for August after acquittal rejection
22.07.2009 - German forces engage in heavy Afghanistan fighting
22.07.2009 - A new era dawns at the Bayreuth Festival
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22.07.2009 - EU's top diplomat in Afghanistan ahead of presidential elections