A trip through time to Europe's origins

The cellphone maker plans to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe and Mexico as it moves production to sites in Asia. Tough competition in the smartphone segment has prompted the shift. 

The German government has adopted guidelines aimed at taking the country's relations with rapidly industrializing nations to a new level. Among other things, the initiative is to ensure reliable raw material supplies. 

The German government has given the green light to a commission that will look into 10 murders allegedly carried out by a neo-Nazi cell. A similar parliamentary committee is to work parallel, but may become a competitor. 

Police in Berlin have arrested two men suspected of spying for a Syrian intelligence agency. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has told the Syrian ambassador to Berlin that such activities were unacceptable.