FRANKFURT, Germany, February 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With retroactive effect to January 1, 2009, the State of Rhineland-Palatinate is taking over all of Fraport AG's shares in Flughafen Frankfurt Hahn GmbH (FFHG).

For the first time an international researcher team has developed a model, which identifies potential habitats and corridors for the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris).

Text of report by Felly Kimenyi entitled " Kagame

By James Mackenzie BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, said on Monday he was stepping down on the advice of doctors only months after taking office.

Text of report by German news agency ddp Mainz: Christoph Boehr, chairman of the CDU [Christian Democratic Union] in Rhineland-Palatinate, has taken steps in view of the CDU's bad results at the Landtag election.