CAMERON ABADI

Associated Press Writer
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Academic Titles Spell Trouble in Germany

Ian Baldwin is director of a research institute at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society and has a Ph.D. in ecology from Cornell University. But the American scholar has run afoul of German police for bandying about his doctorate without permission.

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Germany's Greens Look Right

When Germany's Greens first entered parliament 25 years ago, few imagined that the protest party — with its penchant for beards, jeans and sunflowers — would one day become a sought-after ally for conservatives.

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Germans Who Died at Soviet Camp Recalled

Researchers at the former Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp have finished compiling a list of nearly 12,000 Germans who died there during its use as an internment camp by the Soviets after World War II.

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German Soldiers Less Fit Than Civilians

The German military, it seems, has been traveling too much on its stomach.

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Bach Bust Displayed in Berlin

A modern reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's head — using computer modeling techniques — shows the composer as a strong-jawed man with a slight underbite, his large head topped with short, silver hair.

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Bach Bust Displayed in Berlin

A modern reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's head — using computer modeling techniques _x shows the composer as a strong-jawed man with a slight underbite, his large head topped with short, silver hair.

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Cold War Nuke Bunker Opens to the Public

The former West Germany's most-secret place — an underground bunker designed to shelter the government in case of nuclear war — officially opened Thursday in its new incarnation as a Cold War museum.

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Possible Cache of Nazi Plunder Found

A German lawmaker and part-time treasure hunter claimed Thursday he may have found where the Nazis stashed pieces of the storied Amber Room treasure plundered from the Soviet Union during World War II.

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Germans Arrest Alleged al-Qaida Suspect

German prosecutors said Friday they arrested a 45-year-old German-Pakistani suspected of providing financial and logistical support to members of al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan.

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