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Ireland nicked a valuable point when they played Germany away previous year – John O’Shea netting an injury-time equaliser but O’Neill believes Germany are a different beast now as it came so soon after their World Cup heroics in Brazil.

“We believe that India’s experience in digitization will help us”. Earlier in April, Modi had visited Merkel seeking support for the “Make in India” campaign to transform India as a manufacturing hub. These agreements were signed in the presence of...

“To contain temperature rise we must also change our temperament”, Modi said. Warm welcome to you & the delegation.

The meeting between Modi and Merkel comes days after they met in New York on September 26 at a high-powered summit of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan (G-4 group), which the Indian prime minister hosted, as all the four countries are bidding for a permanent seat in the United...

Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit, Germany on Thursday said it was high time India and the European Union resumed negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), which they had deliberated upon for years before India pulled out of talks.

“If we were not able to guarantee security, then a situation would arise that would be even worse than Srebrenica”, Merkel said, according to a number of people present in the meeting, referring to the slaughter of a few 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb...

The poll, that was published on Thursday, did find that 58 percent thought that the German labour market needs more migrants, while 47 percent said they believe refugees enrich German life, although 39 percent said they worry large numbers of refugees will threaten German...

Has India’s economic performance improved so much that the country’s ranking in the Global Competitiveness Index of World Economic Forum (WEF) jumps 16 places to 55th position? The top five countries that featured in the report were Switzerland, Singapore, the United...

Increased numbers of refugees are giving Germans second thoughts about their support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcoming policies, with more than half now saying they are concerned about the new arrivals in the latest polling.

They are expected to be taken to other camps, including one in the town of Bicske, near Budapest. “We need the government to take its responsibility”, she said. Germany introduced border checks September 13 to try to ensure proper registration of incoming migrants,...

South Africa is nearly dead last among 140 countries in terms of its maths and science education, according to this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness report.

Emerging markets represent the greatest cause for concern, with numerous larger markets seeing reverses this year, having failed to enact crucial institutional and market reforms during better times (India being the notable exception). Failure to boost competitiveness, in...

The best thing to happen was Tottenham’s absolute destruction of current league leader Manchester City. It gives Arsenal a little hope after the loss against Chelsea.

Finland was the only European Union state to abstain from this week’s vote about relocating asylum seekers across the member countries. At the same time, the chancellor emphasized that European standards for accommodation, care and asylum processing must be respected.

The issue is dominating Tuesday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers in Brussels.