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To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline. More

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Katarina Witt was the GDR's poster athlete, everybody's darling in both East and West Germany. More

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PARIS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted an Egyptian-French plan for Gaza.... More

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Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Illinois seat of President-elect ... More

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private employers shed 693,000 jobs in December, up sharply from the revised 476,000 jobs lost in November and far more than economists estimated, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday. More

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Marx would be turning in his grave. Until 1990, East German students went to the HHL to learn about socialist economics. Now, Germany's oldest business school trains tomorrow's industry leaders -- in English, of course. More

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When the Berlin Wall came down, then Chancellor Helmut Kohl predicted eastern Germany would be transformed into a "flourishing landscape." Twenty years later, his forecast has come true for Bitterfeld. More

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News from at 23 minutes ago

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the social and economic hurdles facing eastern Germany are by no means cleared. The cities may be booming, but it's a different story in smaller towns and in the country. More

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Rescuers in Guatemala call off their search for bodies and any survivors of a massive landslide that killed at least 34 people. More

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BEIJING (AP) -- A senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that relations with China have deepened over the past decades and would strengthen further, as the countries played a friendly game of table tennis to commemorate 30 years of ties warmed by "pingpong diplomacy."... More

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News from at 35 minutes ago

A peaceful revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification: DW-WORLD's special traces Germany's ongoing path to unity. More

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Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report. More

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Barack Obama is to join President George W Bush and the other three living ex-presidents for a White House lunch. More

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There may be rumors the 'SATC' gals won't reunite, but that's not what we hear; Roman Polanski's x-rated rape More

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It's been 20 years since East and West Germany reunified, but the terms "typically Ossi" and "typically Wessi" are still bandied about. We've selected some of the most common cliches. More

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Leon Panetta is an impressive man with many laudable achievements to his credit. More

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A new national poll appears to validate the adage that time heals all wounds, at least when it comes to two former presidents of the United States. More

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News from at at 6:03 AM on Wednesday 1/7

Planned layoffs at U.S. firms eased in December from the previous month’s seven-year high but they were up an astounding 275 percent annually, according to a new report. More

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How MI5 keeps shedding some light on its work More

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News from at at 5:53 AM on Wednesday 1/7

Prices of fruit and vegetables start to rise in some Indian cities as a nationwide strike by lorry drivers enters a third day. More

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