Brazil's 2011 soybean harvest could turn out better than expected despite damaging rain with crop yields higher than previously forecast, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday. Full story
Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said. Full story
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned on Tuesday, in another blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel, many of whose senior political and economic allies have toppled like dominoes in the past year. Full story
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein will leave the agency to run the state of Maryland's health department, an aide to the state's governor said on Tuesday. Full story
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had to act swiftly during a massive recall of the widely-used blood thinner heparin, but was not influenced by help from Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc when it later approved one its drugs, the agency's chief told Reuters. Full story
Hamburg may soon become the first German state officially to recognize Islam as a religious community and give its Muslims the same legal rights as Christians and Jews in dealing with the local administration. Full story
St Pauli's coach Holger Stanislawski wipes some tears as he gives a press conference on April 13, 2011 in Hamburg, northern Germany. Stanislawski is to leave the relegation-threatened Bundesliga side at the end of the season, his Hamburg-based club announced on April 13, 2011.
HAMBURG, GERMANY - APRIL 05: A cargo ship passes along the Elbe on its way to Hamburg port on April 5, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany. Major European ports such as Hamburg, Rotterdam and others are scrambling to prepare measures to deal with the first cargo ships from Japanese waters expected to arrive b
Anti-nuclear demonstrators take part during protest action in Berlin March 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of people are expected nationwide on Saturday at anti-nuclear demonstrations organized in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne. Banner reads : ' REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY - Tags: CONFL
