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This article is about the International Tracing Service giving back items found in the Nazi camps to family membors of the victoms. They will be giving to the familes items such as wallets, identification papers, photographs and letters.

The International Trading Service (ITS), says it was posting a list of the personal belongings on the internet in a bid to track the owners or their relatives. They currently hold 2,900 items whose owners are known by name.

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This article is about a 39-year-old woman stabbing a male officer. This event happened in Frankfurt, Germany. He was injured badly in the abdomen and upper arm. The police man's colleague then pulled out a gun and shot the woman in the stomach. She later died in the hospital.

The woman was in an argument with a staff member in the Rhine-Main Jobcentre. She refused to leave and the argument became loud, attracting the attention of the sercurity. Later police arrived. When asked to pull out her idenity papers from her purse she took out a knife and attacked the police officer.

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Dominiue Strass-Kahn was the head of the International Monetary Fund. He is a 62 year old man. He was arrested in New York on suspicion of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a 32 year old chamber maid.

He resigned from his position late Wednesday, four days after being arrested. Berlin wanted to replace him wih a European. Because Strauss-Kahn's term in office was due to end in November 2010, the European will only take over his position until then.

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Police said the 43-year-old driver of the acid truck failed to see the end of a queue of traffic late on Wednesday and hit a petrol truck. The driver of the petrol truck was 51 years old. Both tanks were torn open and thousands of litres of petrol and acetic acid leaked out. Around 70 fire fighters were brought to the scene. This also included specialists who tried to pump the leaked acid into a holding tank. They managed to get most of it but some of the leaked petrol made its way into the sewerage system.They feared the dangers of a build-up of explosive gases.

The acid truck driver was badly injured and was taken to hospital. However the patrol truck driver escaped with minor injuries. The traffic was redirected on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, yet jams still swiftly built up along the alternative routes. __Article #12__ This article is about Carl Martin Welcker, he did something that no one in his family had never done before since Welcker’s great-grandfather, 131 years ago. During the depths of Germany’s recession in 2009, he went to the bank for a loan.

He was the fourth-generation managing partner of the Cologne-based firm Alfred H. Schütte. They were faced with a drop of up to 90 percent in orders for the machine tools the firm manufactures. These machine tools are used in factories around the world. Carl Martin Welcker said, “At that point in time, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are – you are in a tough situation. I went to the bank and said, ‘It doesn’t matter that I never needed help. I do now.’”