Collateral damage' declared 1999's worst word Frankfurt. The term 'collateral damage' has been declared the worst words of 1999. It was the term used by NATO for the civilian casualties of the Kosovo war. To the jury made up of linguists and journalists, the word obfuscates the hard facts, that many innocent people were killed due to NATO's intervention. The worst word of the twentieth century is 'human material'.
Border guards arrest international gang of smugglers Stuttgart.
The border guards broke up an international smuggler's gang in badem- Wuerttemberg. In the region of Stuttgart 11 smugglers were apprehended. They allegedly smuggled people from Sri Lanka, the Ukraine, Russia and the Chech Republic into Germany. No compensation from Bosch for former forced labourers Stuttgart. Electronics company Bosch does not have to pay comensation to two former forced labourers for their work during the second world war.