Major news items in leading German newspapers
Xinhua, January 20, 2015 Adjust font size:
The following are major news items in leading German newspapers on Tuesday.
Die Welt:
-- The fear was back in eastern Ukraine. Since this weekend, fierce battles between Ukrainian army and the rebels blustered again. According to preliminary figures, there were 23 dead and 150 injured.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
-- Germany would lack more and more teachers for mathematics, computer science, natural science and engineering in the next few years, found a study commissioned by Telekom Foundation on Tuesday. Only in North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of teachers of these subjects in general education schools would be halved to just under 25,000 by the school year 2025/2026. 45 percent of the teachers have exceeded the age of 50 now.
Sueeddeutsche Zeitung
-- The gap between the rich and poor deepened steadily. If nothing was changed quickly, one percent of the world's richest population would have more wealth than any other people all together in the year 2016, found the development organization Oxfam in a study published just before the beginning of World Economic Forum in Davos. Endit