At least one person has been killed and others have been seriously injured after a passenger train collided with a heavy goods vehicle at a railroad crossing in southeastern Germany, authorities say. The accident happened at about 10 p.m. local time on Thursday when a regional train crashed into the vehicle at a railroad crossing in Freihung, located in the southeastern state of Bavaria. Approximately 50 passengers were on board the train. The collision was followed by several Read more [...]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A passenger train collided with a heavy-duty lorry at a railway crossing in northern Bavaria late on Thursday killing at least one person and injuring several others, German media reported.The train was carrying around 50 people when it rammed into a lorry near Freihung, northeast of Nuremberg late on Thursday evening, several news websites reported."It hurtled at 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) without breaking into the truck," a spokesman for the police was Read more [...]

Explosive ... Firefighters stand in front of train that collided with a lorry in Freihung, east of Nuremberg, southern Germany.A PASSENGER train has hit a heavy truck at a crossing in southern Germany, leaving several dead and injured.Police say the truck stopped on the crossing before the collision late Thursday local time, which was followed by an explosion.The collision occurred about 70km east of Nuremburg in Freihung in the state of Bavaria.Many dead ... Fire trucks and rescue helicopters surround Read more [...]

The crash happened in Freihung, in eastern Bavaria, late Thursday. According to DPA news agency, it is now being assumed that the truck got stuck on the tracks and was hit by the train. The collision was followed by an explosion.The train collided with a Romanian tractor towing a US Army truck, FOCUS Online reports, citing local police.At least 50 people were in the train at the time of the accident, according to Bild newspaper, citing police sources.“The train was racing at 100 kilometers per Read more [...]

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel was holding crisis talks with party and state leaders Thursday as new data showed Germany is on course to accept one million asylum seekers this year.Europe’s top economy registered more than 758,000 asylum seekers from January to October, the interior ministry said, with Syrians making up one third, followed by citizens of war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan.In October alone, 181,000 migrants arrived seeking refuge, surpassing the previous monthly record of around 163,000 Read more [...]

By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - Senior figures in Germany's ruling coalition parties sounded optimistic on Thursday about the prospects of reaching agreement on how to handle the influx of refugees pouring into the country. The positive comments before meetings between coalition leaders came as official figures showed the number of new arrivals this year had hit almost 800,000 by the end of October - the total the government had been expecting for all 2015. Read more [...]

THIS September, at the height of what the German press has since dubbed an “autumn fairy-tale”, Angela Merkel visited an asylum centre in Spandau, near Berlin. The refugees greeted the German chancellor as though she were their saviour, pressing close for selfies with her. Mrs Merkel does not usually take kindly to unsolicited male hugs. But this time she posed gamely and flashed winning smiles. What made her a heroine to the refugees was a decision she had taken only days earlier. Thousands Read more [...]

Thursday's meeting in Berlin is set to be round two of high level discussions between the party leaders: Merkel of the Christian Democrats (CDU), Horst Seehofer of her Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Sigmar Gabriel of grand coalition partner the Social Democrats (SPD). The trio had met on Sunday without a consensus being reached on the key issue of whether to establish so-called "transit zones" on Germany's borders. Such facilities would mean migrants' eligibility for Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Berlin (dpa) - The leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s sister party has made a U-turn from his pledge to cooperate on managing the country‘s refugee crisis.Horst Seehofer, premier of the south-eastern border state of Bavaria and head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), showed Read more [...]

After the successful introduction of Bavaria Motor Yachts in the United States last year and building on a fast-growing presence across the country, BAVARIA YACHTS will premiere its flagship - the SPORT 450 COUPE to the US market at the upcoming 2015 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. In addition to this debut, BAVARIA YACHTS will be staging the SPORT 360HT for the first time as well as the successful SPORT 400 COUPE and the VIRTESS 420 Fly and Coupe. The BAVARIA SPORT 450 COUPE, available with Read more [...]