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Germany is one of the world's leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic.

Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.

The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 nations, and a founding member of what is now the European Union. More...

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The German women's national football team represents Germany in international women's football and is directed by the German Football Association (DFB). The team played its first international match in 1982. The German national team is one of the most successful in women's football. They are the two-time reigning world champions, having won the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Germany is the only nation which has won both the men's and the women's World Cup. The team has won six of the nine UEFA European Championships, claiming the last four titles in a row. Germany has won three bronze medals at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament, finishing third in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

Women's football was long met with scepticism in Germany and official matches were banned by the DFB until 1970. However, the popularity of the women's national football team has grown since the team won their first World Cup title. More...

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• The Bavarian state election sees the CSU losing its majority in the Landtag (pictured), the state legislature, for the first time in 46 years. (NYT) - 2008-09-28
• The German Bundestag gives parents the right to send children older than one year to a kindergarten or pre-school playgroup, mandating states to build enough facilities. (n-tv) - 2008-09-26
• Germany introduces a test for foreigners seeking to become German nations. (BBC) - 2008-09-01
  
  More Germany-related news in English can be found at Deutsche Welle and Der Spiegel.
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• 1768 – Birth of theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
• 1811 – Suicide of poet Heinrich von Kleist

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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany?
• ... that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
• ... that Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf (pictured) shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
• ... that Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union?
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