A drugstore chain in Germany has started making CDs for their patrons in addition to filling their prescriptions. Customers can now go online to create a custom-made CD, and then go to the store and pick it up with their medicine in a couple of days. The chain, drogeriemarkt or dm, has an online "dm-Musicshop" on its Web site so users can browse through about 200,000 titles from major publishers like BMG, Warner Music, and BMI and pick songs they'd like compiled on a CD. Users pay a basic cost for the CD equivalent to $3. 72 with an additional fee of about $1. 55 per track and the store compiles the CD for them.

British soccer fans are getting some official help before they travel to Germany for the World Cup. The U. K. Foreign Office will help teach Englishmen German versions of terrace chants to sing in Berlin, as well as explaining some rules, and giving helpful translations.

London, England (AHN)-One young British man's love of punk and hard rock music led authorities to interrogate him on suspicions of terrorist activity.

A North Korean music prodigy risked his life to escape the communist country so he could pursue his love of jazz. Reuters reports Kim Cheol-woong, 31, first heard jazz piano while studying overseas. The classically trained pianist wanted to play the less regimented style of music, but could not do so in the dictatorial regime.

North Korea is singing the praises of female revolutionaries on International Women's Day. The official KCNA news agency says Wednesday that many people are singing songs such as "Song of coast artillery women" and "A girl innovator dashing like a steed. "