German conglomerate Siemens AG has announced its plan to cut 15,000 jobs globally by the end of year 2014 to reduce the costs. The company has planned to cut 5000 jobs in Germany where it currently employs 119,000 professionals. Siemens has interests in health care goods, gas turbines, engineering products, wind energy, technology and lighting sector.

A three-week event known as CSI3* Wiener Neustadt showjumping event was organized in the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt.

The event was able to attract many top-notch European riders. The fifth position in the event was held by Shaikh Hassan, Bahrain's leading showjumper. He was able to reach at the fifth position by covering 130-metre course in 59.11 seconds.

If the Nazis had won World War II, Germany would have been the first country to have sent astronauts into the space.

A strategy was devised by German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun to go beyond earth in the late 1940s and early 50s. Braun was the first to develop liquid fuelled rockets as military weapons.

Researchers have recently performed a study, the conclusions of which say that the sea is projected to rise as the earth warms in the coming years.