A 27-year-old German man has been arrested on charges he was part of an al-Qaida bomb plot in Europe.

Two North Korean players have failed drugs tests at the women's World Cup in Germany, FIFA have announced.

JESSICA KÜRTEN has handed over the five horses owned by Georgina Forbes, with speculation mounting that Frenchman Roger-Yves Bost will be the new rider.

General Motors announced 8,300 job losses across Europe today including 4,000 in Germany.

General Motors today said it would close its Opel plant in Belgium with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs.

UEFA are looking into 12 matches in the Europa League and three in the Champions League as part of their investigation into alleged match-fixing.

A late goal from Bastian Schweinsteiger enabled Bayern Munich to stretch their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to six points with a 2-1 win at Bochum.

Borussia Dortmund’s top-scorer Jan Koller has been admitted to a Bochum hospital suffering from a lung infection.

Production of Vauxhall cars in the UK was halted today because of a shortage of parts caused by a strike in Germany over job cuts.

Thousands of employees at General Motors’ European plants staged protests today against the plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.

Angry workers at an Opel car plant in Germany remained on unofficial strike today, continuing their protest against plans by parent company General Motors for thousands of job cuts and defying calls from union leaders and the government to return to work.

A strike which has halted production at an Opel car plant in Germany entered its third day today.

Cork city’s European dream for next season came to an end tonight when they missed out on a place in the UEFA Cup following the Fair Play League draw in Germany.

Cork City take on Shelbourne in the eircom League tonight but they are up against Matt Holland's Charlton also in the draw for the Fair Play League.

Charlton face an agonising wait before they know whether they have gained automatic entry into the UEFA Cup through the Fair Play League.

Germany coach Rudi Voller has called up uncapped Hertha Berlin defender Arne Friedrich for next week's friendly against Bulgaria in Sofia.

A judge in Germany has ordered a Satanic couple who committed murder to be sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.

The struggling European operation of General Motors will cut some 1,600 jobs in a restructuring programme announced earlier this year, the chairman of its German-based Adam Opel AG unit said.

German police have found airplane-related documents in a suitcase believed to have belonged to one of three men implicated in Germany in the terror attacks in New York and Washington.