Volkswagen shares up after Porsche takes majority stakeSTUTTGART - Volkswagen (VW) shares rose sharply Tuesday, a day after sports carmaker Porsche announced it had acquired a majority stake in its German rival. Tiny hot-air balloons spark UFO scare in GermanyMANNHEIM - Germany’s UFO hotline has been inundated with thousands of calls from people who have mistaken glowing lights in the night sky for alien space objects. Ugandan rebels kill about 400 in Congo: Aid groupFREIBURG - A German aid group has said that Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has killed at least 400 people over Christmas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a far higher figure than previously reported. German sleepwalker dies after seven-storey fallULM - An 18-year-old sleepwalker who climbed out of his bedroom window while asleep died of his injuries after falling seven storeys, the German police said Wednesday. World population to be 6.75 bn on New Year’s DayHANOVER - The world’s population on New Year’s Day is set to reach 6.75 billion, a German group that encourages birth control said Tuesday. |