as this year.Other states said they had no plans to introduce fees.Opponents in Germany argue that fees...GERMANY'S higher education system started heading for its biggest shake-up in decades last week ……

CHINA has begun pulling European makeup and perfume from shop shelves to ban cosmetics suspected... Germany, Japan and Switzerland. ……

and in service of the nation."He plans to disarm former Afghan fighters and ban all military forces other than...THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has outlined plans to boost his fledgling national army ……

in spaceCHINA plans to put a solar telescope in space in 2008. It will be the largest and most... for launch in 2005 but which has been delayed.Germany will tighten visa controlsTHE German Foreign ……

US President George W. Bush announced plans on Monday to recall as many as 70,000 troops from... of the Cold War.The changes will mostly affect the roughly 70,000 American soldiers in Germany ……

relax.The European Union (EU) said on June 27 that proposed EU sex discrimination laws won't ban..., Germany's biggest daily."To talk about banning certain aspects of certain publications ……

GERMAN politicians called for a Europe-wide ban on the display of Nazi symbols over the weekend... Nazi symbols such as the lightening symbol of Hitler's SS is illegal in Germany.Michael Muller ……

WHEN German magazine Der Spiegel ran a story about recent efforts to ban public smoking... are cracking down on smoking in public places. But resistance to these new limits is strong. In Germany ……

ordered to take them off the shelves by April 20.The countries affected by the cosmetics ban include Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Germany and Portugal. ……

might have to help your father give up smoking.Starting from this May, Beijing will ban smoking... be non-smoking. More than 150 Chinese cities already have a limited smoking ban. But Beijing ……

in firearm offences," he said.The government plans to put a ban on airguns and replica firearms.... outlined plans for a minimum five year jail term for illegal possession of a gun. He admitted gun crime ……

is alarmed that the Irish have become among the biggest drinkers in Europe. So, it announced plans... more todissuadeyoung people from "drinking to get drunk".The government will ban alcoholic ……

the first country in Europe to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags.A number of countries have banned... laws *muddy the picture. For example, the city of Los Angeles doesn’t have a ban but Los Angeles ……

IRAN lifted its ban on CNN on Tuesday, a day after the government barred the US television network.Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the ban because of the network's mistranslation ……

is easing its ban on summer students from SARS-affected areas of Asia, but she isn't packing her... early this month because of SARS concerns.Then, it eased the ban for about 80 of the students who ……