You've tried marriage therapy. You've tried date night. You've tried attitude adjustment, and tricking yourself into ignoring the discontent ("Just suck it up. ... Everyone feels mediocre about their marriages. ... Stop being selfish and whiny").
A couple who got engaged after the groom-to-be popped the question via a movie trailer talks to CNN's Carol Costello.
Passions were running at their usual near-fever pitch in the pencil world earlier this year. CollectingPencils.com wanted its readers to identify the pencil held by GM designer Chuck Jordan in a picture that ran alongside his obituary. "Great designer, passing of an age, shall not see his like again, yes, yes, yes ... But what's that pencil he's holding?" Over at PencilRevolution.com, a reviewer appraised the latest specialty offering from General Pencil: "Fit and finish is decent. There are a few less-than-perfect ferrules with wood chips overlapping the edges but it's minimal. I find the austere look very appealing." A reviewer at Pencil.org was less forgiving of a mass-market model from Dixon Ticonderoga: "What I'll say about these pencils is that friends shouldn't let friends use the Dixon Economisers."
South Africa may not have made it big at this year's World Cup, but its local beer -- Castle Lager -- did; SABMiller, Castle's brewer, expects to sell an extra 30 million bottles' worth. Yet most of the growth for this $26-billion-in-sales company is coming not from its home base but from its bold expansion abroad.
It's been 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, and unification seems like old news. From a traveler's point of view, the business at hand seems to be to keep the economy going and visitors entertained. Things are changing in Switzerland as well. Germany's southern neighbor continues to impress me with the creative, constructive, and democratic ways it grapples with various challenges. Here are a few changes you'll encounter in both countries in 2010.
German Catholic bishops in the pope's home state of Bavaria expressed "deep shock and shame" Thursday at recent reports of abuse in their diocese.
A teenage student wielding an ax, two knives, and three Molotov cocktails attacked several children at his school in southern Germany Thursday, wounding nine before he was arrested, police said.
Student storms his own school and wounds several children. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
Known for lederhosen, weisswurst and its beer festival, Munich is a city that counters these brassy cliches with a mix of art, history and style.
They may no longer be used for repelling enemy hordes or otherwise defending the kingdom, but these castles still have their rugged good looks.
German astronomers say they have discovered conclusive proof of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy.
For much of the world, Munich is likely to evoke one or more stereotypical images, among them the Glockenspiel in the tower of the neo-Gothic Rathaus, or city hall; the annual Oktoberfest bacchanal; and mustachioed men wearing lederhosen. Style, a word generally not associated with lederhosen, doesn't spring to mind. But these days Munich, Germany's third-largest city and the capital of Bavaria, is shedding its dirndls and feathered caps in favor of cutting-edge design.
A debate about Adolf Hitler's notorious tract has split historians in his homeland
Airlines canceled more than 200 flights operating out of Germany's two largest airports because of public workers' strike.
A storm dubbed "Emma" slammed into Europe Saturday with high winds and heavy rain, killing at least two people, authorities said.
Like a German child's fantasy, Nurnberg's fairy-godmother-like teenage angel stretched out her arms and said, "If you're very, very gentle, you can touch my wings." I stayed seated while little Bavarian preschoolers mobbed the stage to touch their Christkind.
The virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm
But he may need to grapple again, and more diplomatically, with world affairs
Benedict XVI has been known to say incendiary things when out on tour. Vatican officials were hoping for a quiet pilgrimage to Vienna
Nearly 30 years ago Graham Mackay joined the South African Breweries - now called SABMiller since its acquisition of American brewer Miller in 2002. The world's second-largest brewer (by volume) boosted revenue and operating profits by more than 20 percent last fiscal year, despite another lackluster performance by its U.S. operations.
On weekends Borough Market draws some 70 organic farmers, artisanal producers, world-class bakers and gourmet food importers from all over the world.
(Time.com) -- It was not a laid-back Turkish holiday. The citizens of the proud, predominantly Muslim nation had no love of Popes. To the East, the Iranian government was galvanizing anti-Western feeling.
Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, are the new parents of twins, the couple announced Friday.
I have a confession to make about breakfast. The best I usually manage is a piece of toast (if I'm good) washed down with juice or coffee as I head out the door. The exception is when I travel. Splurging for breakfast when I'm on the road, I delight in finding the best local spots.
The identity of the so-called "Piano Man" is no longer a mystery after media reports named him as Andreas Grassl from the tiny community of Prosdorf in Bavaria, Germany.
The mysterious "Piano Man" at a British hospital who did not speak to doctors and nurses for four months has been discharged and is back in his home country of Germany.
When Philip Morris sold seemingly washed-up Miller Brewing to South African Breweries in 2002, the general view was that the beer guys from abroad overpaid and would struggle in the U.S. Turns out,...
Ever made a midnight run to buy poster board for a school project due the next morning? Afraid of what forms, homework and other forgotten but important pieces of paper might be unearthed in a thorough backpack search? Have a Top 10 list of excuses for missed assignments?
The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, was one of the most powerful men in the Vatican under Pope John Paul II, a strict enforcer of church doctrine who earned the nickname "Cardinal No."
Police have arrested 22 members of a suspected criminal Islamic extremist network thought to be involved in recruiting for jihad, or holy war, Munich police said.
Police have arrested 14 members of a suspected criminal Islamic extremist network thought to be involved in people-smuggling and falsifying documents, Munich police said.
CNNMoney: Time for Oktoberfestupdated: Wed Sep 22 2004 12:11:00
Ah, autumn, when a man's thoughts turn to drink.
U.S. President George W. Bush's troop redeployment may have its biggest effect on Germany, once a potential Cold War battlefield.
With backyard grilling season about to move into high gear, let's take a moment to acknowledge the Germans, who gave us the hamburger and the frankfurter (named after the cities of Hamburg and Fran...
I love winding roads, pretzel-shaped turns, and the cars built to safely speed through them. That's probably why I've never been a fan of sport-utility vehicles. Turns out those gas-guzzling land c...
THEY ARE MOSTLY gray-suited and sober-faced bureaucrats, but they understand magic: If each nation is free to concentrate on doing what it does best, the world will get richer. With that wizardry i...
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