Germany’s economy minister says Google may have such a dominant market position that a break-up of the company “must be seriously considered”.

THOUGH singing Deutschland über Alles was a nice touch, it would be far more helpful if our notorious political/financial/useless class actually started speaking German full time.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes members of the organisation’s executive committee may find their positions untenable if they are found to have received payments from a now-defunct marketing company in the 1990s.

After scoring four goals in a game for the third time at this World Cup, Germany are “within touching distance of the title”, according to the Welt newspaper.

Ian McKellen gets frustrated when people think he is Dumbledore from 'Harry Potter'.

Kiefer Sutherland is pleased the ‘24’ movie is “exempt” from being written minute-by-minute.

ARE you ready for Lisbon III?

A German reporter has been kidnapped by a militia group in eastern Congo.

THE euro is overvalued against the dollar, Nobel Prize laureate Robert Mundell said in a newspaper interview.

AN editorial in the influential German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on June 15 had an important insight into the crisis facing the European Union in the wake of the Irish no vote.

Australian Geoff Ogilvy is seen as the biggest danger to Tiger Woods in The Masters this week.

German journalist and historian Joachim Fest, who worked closely with Hitler’s architect Albert Speer on his memoirs and penned one of the best-regarded biographies of the Nazi dictator, has died aged 79.

Three-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker won €1.2m in damages from a German newspaper on Tuesday.

US President George Bush said he is confident he can mend fences with European leaders during a summit next week, though he disagrees with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the future role of Nato.

ON the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently, publisher Guenter Nonnenmacher criticised the text of the EU constitution as a typical Euro document, unintelligible and inaccessible to ordinary people.

Swisscom AG chairman Jens Adler said his company has no interest in acquiring MobilCom AG because the German's company's debts are too high and because he is unconvinced by its business model.

Liberty Media Corp is still interested in bidding for Deutsche Telekom AG's six regional cable businesses, said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing the US company's chief executive Robert Bennett.