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This is the image that comes up when people try to access Wikipedia.de, which used to be forwarded to Wikipedia.org. It reads:

The county court of Luebeck (North Germany) has issued an order in the name of Lutz Heilmann, Member of Parliament (left party/post-communist) that the German Wikipedia (Wikimedia e.V.) must not allow linking its domain wikipedia.de to the Web site wikipedia.org, as long as the German language version of wikipedia.org makes certain statements.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/german-politici... 

Germany will not participate in EU proposals for airports to use full-body scanner security checks, which have raised privacy issues, its interior ministry said on Friday.

"I can tell you in all clarity that we will not take part in this nonsense," a spokeswoman for the interior ministry told a regular news conference.

The executive European Commission proposed last month to add body scanners to a list of security measures that can be used at airports in the 27-country bloc.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTR... 

An amateur diplomat alarmed British officials during World War II by proposing that Germany and Britain divide the world between them, according to records released Sunday.

James Lonsdale-Bryans, a fascist sympathizer, traveled to Italy early in the war to meet the German ambassador, Ulrich von Hassell.

"It would appear that Bryans may be taking part in unofficial discussions," said a Secret Service memo released by the National Archives.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/30/waywa... 

After 15 years of squabbling, Germany and Denmark will sign an agreement next week to build a bridge that will significantly expedite travel and trade between Scandinavia and the European mainland.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,57... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has once again been named the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice only managed No.7 while a relatively unknown banker was given the No. 2 ranking.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,5... 

Six years into its Afghanistan mission, the German army has killed a person there for the first time. Reports, though, are conflicting. While some speak of a firefight, others say it was an unarmed shepherd. The incident is part of a wider flare-up of violence in the country.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,573... 

HiI have just purchased a new Notebook , its on its was via postal service so Im trying to find info before I get it.It comes loaded with Windows Vista but German version becuase I purchased it in Germany. Is it possible I can change language...

Hello,first of all i´m from Germany, so plz stay cool, if my english is not so good.I have a problem with 6 regisrty entries. My Operatingsystem is Windows Vista 64 bit. So that´s the baackground. I wanted to the standard installation folder...

So I am back again, well, actually already a week back again but with no time for posting. But now I have So let me quickly post some bits and pieces Snow Sprint 2007First of all I was at the Snow Sprint 2007 in Sibratsgfäll in Austria. It was the 4th in a [...]

In the Financial Times Germany there was a supplement this morning called “Karriere & Zukunft” (career and future) and it had a listing of the top 5 favourite employers of germans by sector and by what you’ve studied. It was created by The Universum Graduate Survey.Here are the results for the IT sector:1. IBM2. [...]