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| Compiled on December 04, 2013, 06:28 PM CET |
| TABLOID ESPIONAGE Trial Exposes Darkest Corners of British Press Former editors with newspaper News of the World are currently on trial in London, where they are accused of spying on private phone conversations for years. The unfolding testimony against close associates of publisher Rupert Murdoch shows just how far the British tabloid press has been willing to go for a scoop. |
| PAKISTANI CIA INFORMANT 'Drone Attacks Are the Right Thing to Do' A Pakistani who works as an operative for the CIA spoke to SPIEGEL about his motives for helping the Americans, the civilian casualties of drone attacks and his fear of the Taliban. |
| RATE SCANDAL Deutsche Bank's First Big Fine Won't Be Its Last Subprime mortgages, currency tricks, interest rate fixing: Wherever supervisory authorities have probed crooked deals of the past, Deutsche Bank comes up. Now Germany's biggest bank has had to pay its first big fine. It won't be the last. |
| GERMAN MURDER Alleged Cannibal Ran Hotel With Grilling Area New information about an alleged case of cannibalism in Germany suggests the suspect was immersed in the online fetish world, and had discussed a similar act with another willing potential victim. He ran a bed and breakfast which advertised its grilling facilities. |
| DISNEYLAND PARIS Europe's Magic Kingdom Loses Its Magic Disneyland Paris is currently besieged by unflattering headlines and faltering finances. Now an attempted suicide by a park employee is drawing attention to its labor practices. French unions are furious and an outspoken Belgian visitor is campaigning for big changes. |
| VIRTUAL DESTRUCTION Film Recreates Siege of Heidelberg Castle Millions visit the ruins of iconic Heidelberg Castle in Germany each year. A museum in the region recently commissioned archeologists to create an animation reconstructing the attack on the landmark during the Nine Years' War in 1693. |
| COLD CASES Germany May Revise Up Statistics in Far-Right Killings German authorities may have to sharply revise statistics for the number of people killed by right-wing extremists since 1990. The official figure is around 60, but police combing through unsolved cases have identified a further 746 suspicious slayings or attacks. |
| GALE-FORCE WINDS Germans Brace for Major Winter Storm Northern Germany is preparing for a major winter storm expected to make landfall on Thursday. Weather forecasters are warning that winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour could be the worst seen in decades. |
| THE DEAL MAKERS Coalition Deal Shows Rising Clout of Lobbyists As the dust settled in Berlin, one group came out of last week's coalition deal an unequivocal winner: Germany's lobbyists. When it comes to shaping policy, corporate interests are wielding ever more influence on national politics. |
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