German body-builders pluck stranded car from ditch
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A group of 10 body-builders from a German gym took a break from their normal training routine to help a driver whose car was stuck in a ditch, police said on Monday.
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TAXILA, Pakistan Just off the Grand Trunk Road, in an old auto yard filled with rusting axles and rotting trees, Arshad Mehmood is completing his latest masterpiece.
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Outraged workers in Germany refuse to resume production as automaker seeks to save $623.8Ma year. FRANKFURT, Germany  - General Motors management started negotiations with union leaders Monday over
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From the Siemens bribery investigation to the prosecution of illicit conduct at Volkswagen, the German business world is undergoing a painful national cleansing process.
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A bus veered off a highway and fell into a roadside ditch in eastern Germany on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring about 30, police said.
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Production was halted at the Bochum factory of troubled German car maker Opel as workers laid down tools for the second day in a row in protest against plans by the group's US parent, General Motors, to axe thousands of jobs and possibly even close a plant after 2006.
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm and executives from western and southeastern Michigan plan to head to Germany next week to try and get more high-end auto and health-related jobs for Michigan.
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The Frankfurt International Motor Show kicked off with a splash Tuesday, and also a dash of controversy from two Chinese-built cars that German automaker BMW said were copies of its own.
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Volkswagen's new boss Martin Winterkorn has come up with a plan to save the German carmaker's threatened Brussels plant by building a new Audi model there.
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The people of Heuersdorf have lost their village but saved their church.
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Car makers will show off their latest efforts to fight pollution at Frankfurt's autoshow next week by unveiling models with improvements rather than substitutes to the standard internal combustion engine.
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Rescuers used a front-end loader to pluck a woman and three children from the roof of a sport utility vehicle that strayed into floodwaters on a rural road. But they were unable to reach her other two young children trapped inside the SUV.
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Heike Mller, a 37-year-old mechanic, embodies what seems to be going right in eastern Germany.
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EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s.
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German car maker BMW announced on Friday a plan to shed thousands of jobs in its German workforce to boost profitability, following in the tracks of Daimler and Volkswagen.
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As motorways become more and more clogged up with traffic, a new generation of flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways.
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Production of Vauxhall cars will resume on Sunday following disruption caused by a shortage of components because of a strike by workers in Germany, it was announced tonight.