Germans plan 578m-high Ã¼berpyramid
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Mass mausoleum for paying customers A German consortium has announced its plan to build the world's largest structure - a 578m-high "Giant Pyramid", designed to offer paying customers the chance to "outlast personal physical existence", as the group's website puts it.â¦
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The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou plans to build the world's tallest tower, set to be 580m high.
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Inflation hit a 13-year high of 3.1 percent in November in Germany, well above the European Central Bank's target rate of 2.0 percent, official data showed Friday.
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Chancellor Merkel gets high marks as Germany prepares to lead the EU next year and host the G-8 summit.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 5 (IPS) - As if the summit of the eight most industrialised  countries did not have enough problems in fulfilling its own  agenda this week, the group's members are also aligning in a  confrontation along international borders and actions that recall  those of the Cold War.
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Steel makers in Germany expect production to rise to a new record of 47 million tonnes in 2005, beating this year's output of 46.5 million tonnes in the face of booming worldwide demand, the German steel makers' federation said.
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Pending job cuts at Airbus are expected to top the agenda at a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac in Germany on Friday.Comment
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Fourteen years and a trillion euros  after reunification one in five Germans would like to see the  barrier that split the country during the Cold War put back, a  survey found Wednesday.
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Lufthansa increasing its 30 percent stake in British airline BMI is &quot;an option,&quot; Wolfgang Mayrhuber, CEO of the German carrier, said in an interview pre-published on Saturday.
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Germany has unveiled an international plan to wipe out tens of billions of dollars of Iraqi debt so that the war-torn country can rebuild in earnest.
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The French government is seeking to take control of European aerospace giant EADS by pushing for a capital increase to finance development of the new A350 long-haul jet, German newspapers have reported.
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Germany's jobless figure rises above five million, with unemployment now at its highest level since the 1930s.
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Fast forward some 20 years or so and Germany might very well witness a historic event: the very last mass-market passenger car rolling off one of its assembly lines.
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, have crowded into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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"We are presenting a financial plan under which we will achieve a balanced budget for the first time in 40 years in the year 2011 at the latest"  Germany's Cabinet approved a draft 2008 budget on Wednesday that foresees a cut in new borrowing even as spending increases slightly -- underlining the government's aim to balance its books by 2011. via BusinessWeek
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Germany's government Friday proposed new laws to combat far-right demonstrations, timed to include a planned May march in Berlin on the 60th anniversary of the Nazi surrender in World War II.
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KRT) - As next year's 60th anniversary of World War II's conclusion gets closer, it has become the fashion in Germany to describe the Allied victory over Hitler's Third Reich as the beginning of Germany's ...