Germany's rebel striker Kevin Kuranyi said on Sunday he still hopes his Bundesliga form can force national coach Joachim Loew into a U-turn and select him for the World Cup. Kuranyi, 28, has now scored 15 goals this season for Schalke 04 after netting in Sunday's 2-2 draw with Hamburg which left the Royal Blues second in the ...

The German government is ready to grant a 1.1 billion euro loan to develop the Airbus A350 long-haul passenger aircraft, a senior economics ministry official said Sunday. "As far as we are concerned all pre-conditions have been met and the funds are available," said Peter Hintze, parliamentary state secretary at the ministry of economics. His statement implied that the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - European leaders sent out conflicting signals at the weekend over aid to Greece, with Germany's Angela Merkel urging Athens to solve its debt problems alone and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi strongly backing EU support. The comments were the latest sign of divisions within the 16-nation euro zone over whether and how best to provide financial help to ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse <CSGN.VX> said it is restricting bankers' travel to Germany after authorities there said they had launched 1,100 tax evasion probes against the bank's clients and were investigating staff on suspicion of aiding evasion. The probe into Switzerland's second-largest bank by assets relates to a CD with client data bought by ...