BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday compared the far-left and anarchist radicals who rampaged through the G20 summit host city of Hamburg to “neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists.” A hardcore of militants among mass demonstrations against the Group of 20 meeting had burnt cars, looted shops, erected street barricades and hurled rocks and bottles at riot police during pitched street battles. In the worst unrest, Friday night in Hamburg’s Sternschanze […]
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German scientists create world’s largest disclosed synthetic diamond
AUGSBURG, Germany (Reuters) — German scientists say they have created the world’s largest disclosed synthetic diamond. Researchers at Ausgburg University have developed a process for producing synthetic diamonds through chemical vapour deposition at around one tenth of atmospheric pressure. Hydrocarbon molecules are deposited on an iridium base and the diamond “wafer” grows layer by layer. Twenty six years after the research began in 1991, the scientists in Augsburg have created a single 155 carat […]
Suspected bomber killed in German bar blast: police
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The man killed by an explosion at a bar in the southern German city of Ansbach late on Sunday was the one who set off the blast, local police said. At least 12 other people were injured in the explosion, which went off close to a bar in the city centre at around 10:00 pm (2000 GMT). Some 2,500 people were gathered nearby for an open-air music festival, which local media […]





