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Ford will lay off many employees in Europe. Plant closures were an option too, the company announced on Thursday. It is unclear how many people exactly will be let go, but Ford Europe's CEO Steve Armstrong stated this was about thousands of jobs. In all of Europe, Ford employs well over 50,000 people. Most of them, more than half, work at the…

Today the central Austrian municipality Hochkar became an official disaster zone. Here and in other regions, roads were closed. The famous Hochkar Alpine Road…

Hussein from Yemen will probably not find an affordable apartment in the next months. Neither will the young doctor or the African lady who actually seemed more…

Authorities in Germany believe a 20-year-old man from the Hesse province is responsible for the latest hacking attacks against high-ranking politicians and other prominent Germans in the past weeks. The suspect was interrogated and allowed to go home after he confessed. During a hastily organized press conference, Germany's Minister of the…

But of course not everyone shares Müller's or the Berlin Senate's opinion. For instance the Berlin Transport Authority is not enthusiastic at all. "People would…

In some Bavarian regions schools remained closed today, on the first official school day after the Christmas vacation. In Miesbach they will not reopen until…

Verdi insists on a pay increase for airport security personnell. The union wants 20 Euro (22.85 U.S. Dollars or 17.92 GBP) per hour, but Lufthansa rejects that demand.

It was 1979 when he ended his racing career, saying "I don't want to drive in circles anymore". But in 1982 he returned anyway. While he had been part of the…

It happened before Christmas, but nobody noticed until Thursday, the day before yesterday: Hackers, nobody knows who they are, may have stolen sensitive data…

Of course the animals this is all about have interests. Wolves do not go to McDonald's. They kill sheep, goats and cows. But the latter do not want to be eaten. Well, they don't want to be eaten by humans either, but that's a different story. Is it not?