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Joachim Loew, head coach of the German national football team addresses a press conference in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany, on May 16, 2013. Loew named an inexperienced squad for their two-match tour of the United States with many first-choice stars unavailable due to the Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

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  • Passengers upset over no plane air conditioning

    -- Passengers are upset after a Lufthansa flight leaving Denver for Frankfurt held passengers on board for three hours without air conditioning.Airport spokeswoman Laura Coale says paramedics were called about 90 minutes into the delay Sunday while the plane   Read more »

  • AP source: Bach to announce IOC presidential bid

    head of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, or DOSB."All I can confirm is that we will have a press conference tomorrow in Frankfurt," DOSB spokesman Christian Klaue told the AP.Bach has been on the policy-making IOC executive board as a regular member   Read more »

  • Onassis heir's flying horses boosts Lufthansa $1.3M

    has become a "very profitable business," since the size and bulk of a consignment determines the price, he said at the company's Frankfurt Animal Lounge.Flying one horse across the Atlantic can cost $13,000, as much as a first-class return for a two-legged   Read more »

  • Lufthansa workers to strike at German airports

    ahead of a new round of wage negotiations.The ver.di union said Wednesday that it was calling for workers to walk off the job in Frankfurt , Berlin, Hamburg , Munich and other airports. The union and Lufthansa are to meet Friday to discuss ver.di's demand   Read more »

  • Snow ties up European planes, trains, roads

    or languished in airport waiting halls. Thousands of schoolchildren stayed home. Tens of thousands of homes were without electricity.Frankfurt airport, Europe's third busiest, closed at midday after recording about 12 centimeters (5 inches) of snow. More than   Read more »

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About Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main (help·info) [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne, with an estimated mid-2005 population of 648,325. The Frankfurt urban area, which extends beyond the city boundaries, had an estimated population of 1,468,140 in 2000. The city is at the center of the larger Frankfurt Rhine Main Area which has a population of 5 million and is Germany's second largest metropolitan area.

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