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• GM moves Astra production to 24-hour UK factory Germany's Opel factory will stop producing Astra cars, owner General Motors confirmed on Thursday, confirming rumours which have been circulating for weeks. But the US car giant said it would keep the Rüsselsheim factory operating.
• Bayern ready for Chelsea, Berlin protests relegation As Bayern Munich gears up for Saturday's Champions League final against Chelsea in Munich, other battles are also shaping up elsewhere in German football.
• Prince of Prussia sells diamond for $10 million The great-great-grandson of the last German Kaiser sold one of the world's biggest diamonds, the Beau Sancy for nearly $10 million, more than three times the expected auction price.
• German sues Macedonia over CIA abduction The European Court of Human Rights heard a complaint Wednesday filed by a German man who claims the CIA abducted him in Macedonia in 2003 and flew him to Afghanistan to be tortured.
• Merkel fires minister after election disaster Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday afternoon, kicking out Norbert Röttgen who led her conservative party to a historic loss in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday.
• The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide.
• Holiday weather offers little to celebrate Some parts of Germany will be better suited for cross country skis than swim suits over the Thursday bank holiday and long weekend, the German Weather Service (DWD) said on Wednesday.
• Merkel gives self and ministers pay rise German Chancellor Angela Merkel will soon have an extra €930 in her pocket each month, after the country's cabinet decided on Wednesday to award themselves their first pay rise for over a decade.
• Greeks and Spanish flee to Germany in job hunt Fleeing rising unemployment, people from Greece and Spain poured into Germany last year, fuelling the highest rise in immigration for 16 years, data released by the Federal Statistics Office on Wednesday showed.
• 'Blockupy' protests paralyse Frankfurt Germany's financial centre was in lock-down on Wednesday, with Frankfurt police advising those bankers insisting on turning up to work early not to wear suits - as police moved in to clear a protest camp in the centre of the city.
• Teenager 'wore horror mask to kill pensioner' A teenager who killed an old woman by stabbing her 40 times with a knife was wearing a terrifying horror-film style rubber mask during the attack - and then hid it before calling the emergency services, German police say.
• Freelancers fight forced pension plan Self-employed workers in Germany are mounting an offensive against a proposed law that would force them to pay at least €350 per month into the public pension system.
• Football hooligans ruin Düsseldorf's victory Düsseldorf football fans invaded their own team's field on Tuesday evening, disrupting the match which their team was about to win. Their opponents only played to the end on police advice to prevent a blood bath, it emerged later.
• Left-wingers: we torched EU taskmaster's car German left-wing extremists have claimed responsibility for an arson attack against the man they hold responsible for impovershing the Greek people. The attackers burned his wife's car and threw paint and stones at his house.
• Merkel, Hollande: let's keep eurozone together French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed their desire to keep the eurozone together on Tuesday evening in key talks just hours after France's new leader was inaugurated.