The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Bonn, Germany - US President Barack Obama's presence at next month's climate summit in the Danish capital Copenhagen is vital, a UN official said Wednesday in the German city of Bonn. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on...
Microsoft Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12) (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Today’s author is Reinout Dorreboom from the Netherlands, a Technical Consultant at Getronics, where he has worked with Office applications for many years, and where his Microsoft Certified Training skills enabled him to help other people get up to speed with Excel. In Excel 2007 (and earlier), it’s possible to create a drop-down list. By using the INDIRECT function, you can then create...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Bonn, Germany - A 16-year-old girl who attempted to kill teachers and fellow pupils at her German co-ed high school was sent to youth prison Tuesday for five years. She was foiled when another girl observed her in the school toilets preparing her pis...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Bonn, Germany - A bank manager described by the media as Robin Hood with a computer was given a suspended, 22-month prison term Monday in Germany for borrowing from the rich to help the poor. The branch manager, 62, who has now joined the ranks of ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Overcoming the legacies of pogrom and Holocaust, Germany's Jews are beginning to put down secure roots The date 9 November has often been called the Schicksalstag ("day of fate") in German history, marking the day in 1918 Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the Weimar Republic from the Reichstag, in 1923 the then emerging Nazi party attempted the " beer hall putsch " in Munich, in 1938...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Bonn, Germany - German football has been left stunned by the death of national team goalkeeper Robert Enke who was hit by a train in what police believe was suicide. The German national team cancelled training Wednesday morning and officials have not...
Arkansas Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I was just a young kid when the wall fell, so I don't remember much about today but I do remember my parents being glued to the television watching Tom Brokaw reporting live from West Berlin. I also remember them talking to friends and relatives stationed in West Germany at the time. I still have pieces of the wall hanging on a plaque that friends collected and brought back to our family. And last...
BBC SPORT - Olympics 2008 blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn , when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story that flashed...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor What is a Carrotmob , you ask? Well, it's an organized group of consumers banding together to encourage business owners to get serious about making their shops sustainable! Shop owners who are willing to make a bold commitment to being socially responsible and environmentally friendly get rewarded with lots of business. Carrotmobs put the power in the...
eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Oct 21: The UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany has released the latest data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrialized countries increased in 2007, which continued the upward trend of the previous six years. According to a release, data submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) show that greenhouse gas emissions of the 40 industrialized countries...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
BONN, Germany - The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators...
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
International negotiations were launched in December 2007 to draw up a United Nations agreement on tackling climate change for the period after 2012, when key provisions of the Kyoto Protocol will expire. The negotiations are due to be concluded at the Copenhagen climate conference on 7-18 December 2009. Three negotiating sessions at official level have been held so far this year, all in Bonn, Germany....
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Germany: New video threatens October attack Last week German security forces arrested a German-Turkish citizen suspected of preparing bombs and posting al-Qaeda propaganda online. ---------- In a new video Islamic extremists threaten Germany with an attack in October. The video appeared Sunday on a militant-Islamic website that had published announcements and videos in the past of groups linked to...
This Ain't Hell (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Deutsche Welle reports that al Qaeda released a video today warning Germany of an attack there if the election doesn’t go the terrorists’ way; In the video, a man identified as Bekkay Harrach from Bonn demanded an end to Germany’s military mission in Afghanistan. He spoke German, and was dressed in a suit and tie and [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
International terrorist organization al-Qaida released a video on Friday in which Bekkay Harrach, an Islamist from Bonn, threatens the German electorate ahead of next week's general election.
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