The European Commission says the EU's much-delayed Galileo sat-nav network will begin operation in 2014 and has awarded key contracts to Germany's OHB System and France's Arianespace.
Dresden's Museum of Military History is now attracting visitors in a building remodelled by star architect Daniel Liebeskind, but there are worries that some of the exhibits might not be suitable for children.
When Nokia closed its German operation in Bochum in 2008, it opened a new plant in Cluj, Romania. Now that plant, too, is set to be shut down.
A Bulgarian school has made chess lessons compulsory in a bid to improve students' ability to think strategically.
When East German border guards stopped an American diplomat from crossing from West Berlin to East Berlin they triggered a crisis that brought the world to brink of nuclear Armageddon.