Fondness for finger causes German thief&#39;s downfall
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A German thief got nabbed after he tore off his finger during a bungled break-in then went back to retrieve it, police said on Wednesday.
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The daring theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; has left the international art world in a state of shock.
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A Portuguese soccer player lost a finger when he caught his wedding ring on a fence while celebrating a goal for his Swiss team. Paolo Diogo was injured after his late goal put Servette ahead 4-1 Sunday against Schaffhausen.
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'No good to anyone else', insists semi-armless victim A disabled biker who left his prosthetic hand gripped to the handlebars of his Suzuki faces a bill for Â£450 for a new mitt after thieves made off with the original, the Sun reports.â¦
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The works can be almost impossible to sell, they can end up dumped in the strangest places, you can&#39;t trust anyone. It&#39;s enough to make a thief scream, writes Sarah Lyall.
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A German tax official who stole more than $230,000 (114,950 pounds) from the state by inventing taxpayers and claiming money owed to them has been handed jailed for three years and three months, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Trojan spam scam nipped in the bud German police have arrested ten people suspected of running a phishing scam designed to raid the contents of online bank accounts that netted hundreds of thousands of euros.â¦
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Topless snap ends high altitude protest A German man who'd spent 10 days atop a 72-foot pole in protest at a conviction for fraud finally descended from his temporary eyrie after his missus sent up a topless snap of herself, Reuters reports.â¦
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Violence is anathema to modern German sensibilities. That pacifism applied to video games could mean legal repercussions. By Bruce Gain.
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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A German banker who stole money from  rich clients to help poor ones has been sentenced to two years  and 10 months in prison, a court said Thursday. The  45-year-old, dubbed by German media as a modern day Robin Hood,  diverted 2.1 million euros ($2.79 million) to clients he felt  were needy while holding a senior position at a savings bank in  the southern region of Tauberfranken.
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Continuing its crackdown on software pirates, German police arrested a 46-year-old lawyer, two brothers, and a teenager on Thursday for allegedly selling illegal software, movies, games, and music through a commercial online service, according to the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU).
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An investigation of alleged German tax evaders has fueled angst not only among wealthy Germans, but also among politicians facing an angry public
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Zurich's E.G. Buehrle museum was the location for the most "spectacular" theft in Swiss history
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German man sentenced to three years for selling counterfeit Microsoft products.
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There are many ways to estimate a person's age -- gray hair, wrinkles, acne. Israeli inventor Shmuel Levin thinks he's found a better way, by measuring a person's middle finger. It may sound odd, but Levin's idea has caught the attention of RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, a leading maker of computer security products. RSA and Levin's company, I-Secure of ...
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A father of two in Germany stunned authorities when he chased down an auto thief by car, leapt onto the roof of the stolen vehicle and then phoned through instructions to police as the crook sped off with him.