Dachau

Google game slammed over use of death camps

News that Google is using the sites of Nazi concentration camps as elements in an "augmented reality" project - an online game linked to the real world - has caused extreme upset to Holocaust survivors' organizations.

Military

Guttenberg slams 'clueless' critics

German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, facing mounting pressure over deadly accidents involving soldiers, on Monday called his critics "clueless" and uninformed.

data protection

De Maizière suggests 'digital eraser' for online privacy

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière wants to give Germans the right to a “digital eraser” to delete personal online content, he said on Tuesday. He hopes to add the idea to a new data protection law set for completion this autumn.

Sex

Becker to Woods: I feel your pain

German tennis great Boris Becker, no stranger to scandal himself, has come out in support of Tiger Woods, saying he sympathises with the golf star whose life is in disarray after his infidelity was exposed.