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Athens, Jan 19 – Greece has cancelled an order for about eight million batches of the vaccine against swine flu, local media said citing the government sources.

Frankfurt, Jan 17 – Despite uncertainties that still plague the world’s home-textile industry with low demand and high unemployment in many traditional markets, India dominated the ongoing four-day Heimtextil fair in Frankfurt – the world’s largest fair for home textiles and furnishing products – by presenting the world’s biggest exhibitor contingent.

Munich, Jan 16 – Bayern Munich moved to the top of the Bundesliga for the first time in a year courtesy a 2-0 victory over Hoffenheim as the German league returned from its winter break.

Athens, Jan 16 – A powerful explosion went off at the Ministry of Press and Information in Athens Saturday, causing extensive damage but no injuries, reports said.

Hamburg, Jan 13 – The small German company RUF, which specialises in conversions of high-powered sports cars, has built what it calls the first Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) running purely on zero-emission electric power and based on the Porsche Cayenne.

Berlin, Jan 13 – The German economy shrunk by 4.8 percent last year as the global financial crisis engulfed Europe’s economic powerhouse, the nation’s statistics office is forecast to say Wednesday.

Verona (Italy), Jan 12 – Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian hero who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War II. But few of his countrymen had ever heard of him when he died in 1992.

Mainz (Germany), Jan 12 -Herta Mueller, winner of the latest Nobel Prize for Literature, called on Germany Monday to find and prosecute former agents of Romania’s Securitate communist secret police.

Stuttgart, Jan 11 – The Internet has no boundaries. At least that’s the conventional wisdom. Nonetheless, hurdles remain for many who would like access to the worldwide web, especially those with disabilities. At issue are details seldom considered by web designers, programmers and non-disabled users.

Frankfurt, Jan 8 – Men who plead, or even whine, leave Heike Wingenfeld cold. A door supervisor at Sansibar City, a swank club, disco and bar in Frankfurt’s bank district, she is a merciless enforcer of her boss’s admission requirements, which could be summed up in the word “trendy”.