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| Compiled on November 12, 2013, 06:46 PM CET |
| POLANSKI ON POLANSKI The Director Discusses His Life Tragedies Roman Polanski turned 80 in August, and his new film "Venus in Fur" will be released this month. He discusses his childhood in the Krakow ghetto, the murder of his wife Sharon Tate and his abuse of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. "We all just tried to forget about it," he says. |
| BLACK MARKET IN LEBANON Syrian Refugees Selling Organs to Survive In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, a growing number of refugees are surviving in Lebanon by illegally selling their own organs. But the exchange comes at a huge cost. |
| GERMANS REJECTED US Unlikely to Offer 'No-Spy' Agreement Senior German intelligence officials met with their NSA and CIA counterparts in the US last week to start trust-rebuilding efforts between the estranged allies. While a "no-spy" agreement seems unlikely, Merkel might learn what Snowden could still reveal. |
| SPY-PROOFING Deutsche Telekom Pushes for All-German Internet Recent revelations about NSA spying have given fresh impetus to the dream of a purely German Internet. Deutsche Telekom believes it could introduce a system safe from prying foreign surveillance, but some criticize the plan as pointless. |
| MACEDONIAN MAKEOVER Europe's Flailing Capital of Kitsch The Macedonian government has spent huge sums turning its capital, Skopje, into a neo-baroque architectural nightmare. The project's gaudy excesses camouflage a disastrous economy and troubling record on human rights. |
| CLIMATE RESEARCH Lessons from Typhoon 'Haiyan' Many at the climate conference in Warsaw and around the world see a link between global warming and the devastating typhoon in the Philippines. But several studies point to other causes -- and even more worrisome trends. |
| TEPID TALKS A Coalition Devoid of Vision The coalition taking shape in Berlin between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats will have a huge majority in parliament. But the halfhearted discussion that's gone on so far suggests that the government won't tackle big projects -- and Merkel is to blame. |
| SPENDING BONANZA The Eerie Harmony of Germany's Coalition Talks Angela Merkel's party and the Social Democrats spent the election campaign fighting over policy. Now they're getting on famously in coalition talks, agreeing to costly new projects at the taxpayers' expense. It's time the gloves came off -- for the nation's sake. |
| 'DEGENERATE ART' List of 25 Works from Munich Find Made Public German authorities on Monday published a list of 25 out of roughly 1,400 artworks discovered in a Munich apartment. The move is the first step in an effort to speed research into the provenance of Nazi-era acquisitions, following international criticism of Germany's handling of the discovery. |
| ESCAPE TO FREEDOM Large Runaway Crabs Roam German Train Large hairy crabs escaped from a box and went scuttling down a train in Germany. Only 10 were caught, the others remain at large: under the seat, in the luggage rack, or behind the fold-down table. |
