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Claudine Gay resigns as president of Harvard University following controversial remarks she made during a congressional hearing on antisemitism and accusations of plagiarism.
2024-01-2

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is accused of plagiarising a speech by François Fillon.
2017-05-2

German conglomerate Siemens AG announces plans to acquire American oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand Group Inc for US$7.6 billion.
2014-09-22

Annette Schavan, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, resigns after the University of Düsseldorf stripped Schavan of her doctorate for plagiarism.
2013-02-9

German prosecutors reopen hundreds of investigations into Nazi concentration camp guards, following the successful prosecution of retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk for his role at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during World War II.
2011-10-5

German health officials report 365 new cases of the E. coli outbreak as it continues to spread throughout Europe.
2011-06-1

The German Federal Minister for Defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns over a plagiarism scandal.
2011-03-1

German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has his doctorate revoked by the University of Bayreuth for submitting a thesis riddled with plagiarisms.
2011-02-23

A lawsuit by the estate of Adrian Jacobs against Scholastic, claiming that J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" plagiarised one of his own works, is dismissed by a court in the United States.
2011-01-7

A museum in Berlin opens an exhibition on Adolf Hitler and his relationship with the German people, the first museum in Germany to do so.
2010-10-15