Topic: Europe
A novel idea by a hard-up east German village to sell its potholes to finance their repair looked Friday to have got off to a good start, with 111 already snapped up, the official website showed. Since last week people have been able to buy a hole in Niederzimmern near Leipzig for 50 euros (68 dollars). In return the authorities ...
At least 25 people were killed and thousands evacuated from their homes in southern Kazakhstan Friday when two burst dams unleash massive flooding, officials said. Flood waters from rivers swollen by unusually heavy winter snowfalls and an early spring spilled over the walls of a dam in the southern Aksuisky district and washed away a second in the nearby Karatalsky ...
The British government says it's giving a 270 million pound ($410 million) loan guarantee to General Motors Co. to help keep its Vauxhall operations going in Britain. UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson says the deal announced Friday follows "highly complex" talks between the government and the ...
