French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.

French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.

The European Commission is planning a 130-billion-euro (163-billion-dollar) economic stimulus programme, a spokeswoman for the German economy ministry said Wednesday.

`That represents one percent of gross domestic product for each member state,` she told AFP.

`For Germany, that means 25 billion euros.`

The European Commission is planning a 130-billion-euro (163-billion-dollar) economic stimulus programme, a German economy ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday.

`That represents one percent of gross domestic product for each member state,` she told AFP.

`For Germany, that means 25 billion euros.`

The European Commission is planning a 130-billion-euro (163-billion-dollar) programme to jumpstart the economy, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported in its online edition Wednesday.

The hunt for a suspected pensioner serial killer in Germany was called off on Wednesday after police said they had been fooled by a prankster suffering from mental health problems.

A German state parliament disbanded Wednesday to make way for new elections after a spectacular rebellion among embattled Social Democrats kept them from forming a ruling coalition.

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Wednesday returned home from medical treatment in Germany after an absence of around a month, his press service said Thursday.

`President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on Wednesday returned after treatment in Germany,` a presidential statement said.

A bored German banker who faked university diplomas to realise his dream of becoming a surgeon has been jailed for three years, officials said on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old turned his back on finance and armed with a diploma from Britain`s elite Oxford University knocked up on his home computer landed himself a new job at the Erlangen university clinic in Bavaria.

Having extremely large breasts is not an illness and an operation to reduce their size is therefore not covered by German state health insurance, a court said Wednesday.