03-03-2018 10:37
Brazilian superstar Neymar arrived in hospital on Friday (Mar 2) for an operation to mend the broken bone in his right foot that has ended his season at Paris Saint-Germain and overshadowed Brazil's World Cup preparations.
02-03-2018 17:07
BERLIN: Germany's government IT network is under an "ongoing" cyberattack, the parliamentary committee on intelligence affairs said on Thursday (Mar 1), without confirming a media report that Russian hackers were behind the assault.
28-02-2018 14:00
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised a food bank for refusing to accept any more migrants, calling the decision "not good".
21-02-2018 08:00
With the Fourth Industrial Revolution surging globally and impacting Vietnam, enterprises in Vietnam will have to change themselves to adapt. Pham Thai Lai, CEO of Germany’s Siemens Vietnam, spoke to VIR’s Thanh Tung about how digital technologies can impact enterprises in Vietnam, especially medium-sized ones.
15-02-2018 17:56
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: Roger Federer delivered a crushing 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Ruben Bemelmans in just 47 minutes on Wednesday (Feb 14) as the Swiss star moved just two wins away from becoming the sport's oldest world number one.
13-02-2018 21:34
A German court has found Facebook is breaching data protection rules with privacy settings that over-share by default and by requiring users to give real names, a consumer rights organisation said on Monday (Feb 12).
12-02-2018 22:15
PARIS: Petra Kvitova led the Czech Republic into a 10th successive Fed Cup semi-final on Sunday (Feb 11) as Serena Williams was poised to make her long-awaited return to the sport she has dominated.
09-02-2018 12:00
On February 7, Vinfast will launch a vocational training centre to train mechanical and mechatronics engineers for its automobile manufacturing complex located in Dinh Vu-Cat Hai Economic Zone in Haiphong city.
08-02-2018 10:26
Angela Merkel has survived multiple crises but her obstacle-strewn path to a fourth term has prompted suggestions she is past her peak, leaving Germans to ponder life without the veteran chancellor.
07-02-2018 13:18
Arjen Robben scored twice as Bayern Munich breezed into the last four of the German Cup with a 6-0 quarter-final romp at third-division Paderborn on Tuesday (Feb 6).
06-02-2018 16:42
ROME: The Italian league announced on Monday (Feb 5) that the domestic television rights for Serie A games for the period 2018 to 2021 have been sold to Spanish group MediaPro for €1.05 billion (US$1.3 billion) a year.
03-02-2018 10:15
BRISBANE: Alexander Zverev handed Germany a 1-0 lead in their Davis Cup World Group first round tie against Australia when he outlasted Alex de Minaur in a four-hour marathon in Brisbane on Friday (Feb 2).
03-02-2018 09:59
BERLIN: Negotiators for a new grand coalition between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and Germany's Social Democrats plan to progressively abolish the country's air transport tax, according to a working paper seen by Reuters on Friday (Feb 2).
02-02-2018 11:31
German playmaker Mesut Ozil ended speculation over his future at Arsenal by agreeing a new three-year deal with the Premier League giants on Thursday (Feb 1).
30-01-2018 16:00
DORTMUND: Spanish defender Marc Bartra told a German court on Monday (Jan 29) of his mortal fear when bombs hit the bus of his Borussia Dortmund football team last year in an attack which he said "changed my life".