Peter Maushagen

Frankfurt airport strike extended to late Tuesday

2012-02-20T14:14:04Z

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Travelers in Europe face further delays and flight cancellations this week as ground staff at Frankfurt airport plan to extend their strike until early on Tuesday, with neither side in the dispute showing any sign of giving ground.

Frankfurt airport strike to continue on Tuesday

2012-02-20T06:31:45Z

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ground staff at Frankfurt airport have plans to extend their strike, with labor union GdF saying it is now calling on them to halt work for an additional 24 hours from 0400 GMT on Tuesday.

Strike grounds almost 300 flights at Frankfurt

2012-02-17T09:43:37Z

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Almost 300 flights were cancelled at Frankfurt, Europe's third largest airport, on Friday after a small group of workers on the airport apron resumed a strike over pay and said the action could continue next week.

Newsmaker: Megaupload a story of Dotcom boom and bust

2012-01-22T04:14:19Z

(Reuters) - Among the roll-call of hip-hop artists and other celebrities plugging Megaupload.com's digital storage services in an online promotional video, a cameo from the website's founder would have gone unnoticed by many.

Megaupload a story of Dotcom boom and bust

2012-01-22T04:14:19Z

Deutsche Telekom: U.S. staffing not linked to AT&T deal

2011-08-27T10:58:52Z

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom said it had not been cutting jobs at its U.S. arm T-Mobile USA in anticipation of the unit's sale to AT&T , as reported by a German online magazine on Friday.

Analysis: Greek state firms could be investors' poison

2011-06-01T12:49:11Z

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has to cut through a thicket of outdated regulations and labor laws if its ambitious privatisation drive is to raise anything near the sums needed to avoid default and jump-start its ailing economy.

Nazi camp trial session canceled, Demjanjuk ill

2010-01-14T13:08:04Z

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A German judge on Thursday canceled a planned day of hearings in the trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of helping to kill 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, because the 89-year-old said he was ill.

Hypo Real Estate may need more capital: report

2009-09-13T09:28:22Z

MUNICH (Reuters) - German property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) , whose financial troubles forced Germany to nationalize it, has billions of euros in unrealized losses that may swell its need for fresh capital, a newspaper reported.