19.12.2009 - French court fines Google for scanning books
Google's drive to digitize all the world's books came to a skidding halt on Friday after a Paris court ruled that "Google had committed acts of copyright violations" by digitizing 4,000 of works from one of France's biggest publishing houses, La Martiniere. The court ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros in damages to the three publishers owned by the La Martiniere group and a symbolic sum of one euro to the SNE Publishers' Association and the SGDL Society of  Authors...

19.12.2009 - News
White rhinos sent home

Four rare northern white rhinos, half the known population left in the world, on Saturday started on a long journey from Dvur Králové zoo to their homeland Kenya. The transfer of four of the zoos six white rhinos is a last-ditch attempt to save the species from extinction...

19.12.2009 - Leverkusen retakes top spot after defeating Moenchengladbach
DW-WORLD: German teams receive opponents in Champions League, Europa League draw Six Bundesliga teams have reached the knock-out rounds in Europe this season - now they all know who to prepare for when the competitions kick off again in February. (18...

19.12.2009 - Vatican under pressure as wartime pope is moved closer to sainthood
DW-WORLD: Pope seeks to salve Holocaust wounds Pope Benedict XVI is on his first trip to Israel. He has used a speech to seek to heal the wounds created by, among other things, his reinstatement of a Holocaust-denying bishop...

19.12.2009 - Poland tightens borders in search for stolen Auschwitz concentration camp sign
Polish police say they have tightened security checks at airports and border crossings, and have begun rummaging through scrap metal yards to intensify their search for the stolen sign at Auschwitz. Authorities have also placed road blocks in the southern region and mobilized about 40 forensic experts to gather evidence on the museum grounds, said regional police spokesman Dariusz Nowak...

19.12.2009 - UN climate summit "takes note'' of Copenhagen accord
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