Not that citizens need to take cover. The satellite will break into pieces, and Germany's space agency, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), put the chances that somebody somewhere ...

Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet ... Soviet military dominance over the whole East European satellite world, this hapless, cheerless rump of a country ...

More than 190 people have died as heavy rainfall caused severe flooding in parts of western Europe last week, with the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate one of the worst-hit areas. The floods ...