Deutsche Welle English Service News 14.8.2005, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The waiting is over for fans of German soccer as the Bundesliga starts again. Get it all on DW-WORLD.DE: We offer you results, tables and live tickers of the matches. Check out picture galleries of the best players and interactive features such as quizes and betting games where Chinese Bayern Munich fans get a chance to compete against Texan Schalke supporters. You'll find it all at www.dw-world.de/soccer
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Cypriot Plane Crashes, 121 Feared Dead A Cypriot airliner with 121 people on board from Larnaca, Cyprus, crashed near Athens. Police suspect that a sudden drop in cabin pressure was to blame and say they do not suspect a terrorist attack. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1679992,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Black boxes found, 121 dead Rescue workers have found the two black boxes of the Cypriot airliner that crashed with 121 people on board north of Athens on Sunday. The boxes are expected to provide details as to why the Helios Airways plane crashed, killing all of 115 passengers and its six crew. The airliner was on a flight from Larnaca, Cyprus to Athens when it crashed near the coastal town of Kalamos. Helios Airways said it was unclear what caused the crash. The Greek Defence Ministry said there may have been problems with the plane's cabin pressure or oxygen supply. Earlier, Greek fighter jets who tried to intercept the plane after ground control lost contact with it, said the pilot was absent from the cockpit and the co-pilot was slumped in his seat. 4,000 ultra-nationalists sneak into Gaza Israeli police have blocked roads to Gaza to stop more opponents of Israel's pullout from occupied territory from slipping into Gaza settlements. The Israeli army chief said at least 4,000 ultra-nationalist Israelis had sneaked into the settlements in recent weeks to support Gaza settlers who plan to resist being removed from their homes. Sunday midnight is the official deadline for the evacuation but settlers will be given 48 hours grace before being removed forcibly. Of the approximately 8,000 residents in Gaza, around 60 percent have applied for compensation to move. A Palestinian task force has also been deployed in to prevent any attempt by Palestinian militants to disrupt the pull-out. Iran unveils new cabinet Iran's ultra-conservative President Mahmood Ahmadinejad has unveiled a new cabinet, putting hardliners in charge of foreign affairs, intelligence and other key ministries. Ahmadinejad warned the West not to resort to bullying over its nuclear programme which it says is for peaceful purposes only. Meanwhile, the AP news agency reports that hundreds of Iranian students pelted the British embassy in Tehran with eggs, tomatoes and stones on Sunday. They are protesting Europe's call for Iran to freeze its nuclear program and want Iran to pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. On Wednesday, Tehran resumed uranium conversion at its nuclear facility in Isfahan after rejecting an offer of political, economic and trade incentives from the European Union. Germany rejects military option for Iran Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has warned the United States against using military force to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. At an election campaign rally in his hometown of Hanover, Schroeder said military action would be a dangerous step to take, and called on the United States to seek a diplomatic solution. Washington accuses Tehran of seeking to produce nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has called on Tehran to suspend all of its recently restarted uranium conversion activity. Iraq draft constitution expected soon A draft of Iraq's new constitution is expected to be completed in the next few hours. Members of the panel writing the document say some crucial issues still have to be worked out, but that the draft would be finished. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has imposed a Monday deadline for presenting the document to the country's parliament. The Iraqi government and Washington hope a constitution will bring some order back to Iraq and allow the United States to reduce the number of troops it has deployed in the country. Sri Lankan police arrest suspects Police in Sri Lanka have arrested 12 Tamils in raids carried out in connection with the assassination of the country's foreign minister. Lakshman Kadirgamar was shot dead by a sniper just outside his home in the capital, Colombo, on Friday. None of the suspects has been charged. Kadirgamar was an ethnic Tamil who was a vocal opponent of the Tamil Tiger rebels who have been fighting for an independent homeland in the north and east of the country for the past two decades. Top security for Pope visit to Cologne Top level security measures are in place for the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cologne who will attend World Youth Celebrations there. More than 12,000 police, firemen and federal agents will be monitoring events on the ground, as well as Cologne's airspace and waterways. Around one million people are expected to descend on the city during the festivities which start on Thursday through to Sunday. It's the first visit abroad by former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was elected Pope in April following the death of John Paul II. Bakiyev inaugurated as Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been sworn in as Kyrgyzstan's new president. Bakiyev took the oath of office in the central square in the capital, Bishkek, a month after winning a landslide victory in the country's presidential election. He had held the office on a caretaker basis since March, when former President Askar Akayev fled the country amid mass protests against alleged wrongdoing in parliamentary elections earlier in the year. Mann remembered 50 years after death A ceremony has been held in northern Germany to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mann. The German author won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Buddenbrooks in 1929. A few years later, the outspoken opponent of Nazism, went into exile. Among those who attended the ceremony in Mann's birthplace, Luebeck, was German President Horst Koehler. He praised Mann as an ambassador of German culture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DW-WORLD offers you a special service for the Bundesliga. Get all the action on your mobile device and you'll never miss out on important news. For more information, please visit http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,1595,8733,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please turn to our internet website at http://dw-world.de/english Here you'll find out what's happening in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. 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