Germany is to face European Union (EU) officials in a bid to save the designation of Apfelwein - its traditional apple wine - amid fears it is to be victim of new EU regulations. Apfelwein, a beverage with five to seven percent alcohol content, comes from the country's south-western state of Hesse which includes the financial center Frankfurt.

German playboy Rolf Eden filed charges against a 19-year-old Berlin teenager for refusal to sleep with him, claiming it was age discrimination. According to Eden, both returned to his place after a night in the city. When they were about to have sex, the teenager refused saying Eden was too old for her. "That was shattering. No woman has ever said that to me before," Eden lamented to tabloid reporters. The 77-year-old playboy known as the king of Berlin nightlife in the 1950s and '60s said the incident "crushed" him.

A traveling exhibition based on broken relationships has arrived in Berlin where it is proving to be popular. Aptly named The Museum of Broken Relationships, it asks people in each city it comes to, to donate memorabilia of their terminated relationships, from brief flings to long painful divorces.

A Mexican politician who suffered a humiliating defeat in Mexico's 2006 presidential election, tried his luck in the over-55s section of the Berlin Marathon, winning the event only to be disqualified later for taking a short cut. Mexican politician Roberto Madrazo, running oddly on a long skintight pants, complemented with a wind breaker, a hat, caught the attention of New York-based marathon photographer Victor Sailer, who alerted race organizers.

Adolf Hitler's personal stock of champagne was won by an anonymous Swedish bidder in a British auction Friday. The bottle of Moet et Chandon champagne dated 1937 was auctioned and purchased for $3,359 at Charterhouse auctioneers in Sherbourne, southwest England.