German doctors who gave an HIV-positive patient with leukemia a bone marrow transplant from a donor resistant to HIV infection claim that, four years later, the patient is free of both cancer and HIV. That is some strong marrow!

[It was a winter wonderland in Germany today after the country and most of northern Europe were hit with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Image via AP]

Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.

German authorities have launched a manhunt for two men they believe are planning suicide attacks

Google Street View launched today in 20 German cities, but only after privacy-minded Germans forced Google to blur 240,000 houses from their maps. This scene managed to make it through—should really comfort creeped out Germans. [via Reddit]

Police in Namibia this morning found a suitcase on a Munich-bound plane that had "a fuse, clock and wires" inside, attached to batteries. But no explosives! Which is nice. Still: Germans should panic, panic, panic.

Last week, the Yemeni mail bombs. Today, letter bombs exploded outside the Swiss and Russian embassies in Greece; a dozen coordinated bombs killed 63 in Baghdad; and a letter bomb was found in the German chancellor's mail room. Democracy flourishes.

[Cranes flying south for the winter, at sunset in Germany. Photo via AP.]

Everyone's favorite World Cup-predicting octopus, Paul, died today at the Sea Life Center in Oberhausen, Germany. Officials say he passed "peacefully in his sleep," and that a monument would be erected in his honor. Rest in peace, buddy. [Der Spiegel]

A new installation at Berlin's Museum for Contemporary Art, by Carsten Höller, will soon offer vistiors a chance to pay 1,000 euros to eat shrooms and sleep in a "floating hotel room on a platform shaped like a mushroom."

Life in the Berlin Zoo sucks for Knut the polar bear. He's being bullied by female bears in his cage. Said one zookeeper: "Instead of enjoying himself with the three ladies, he cowers fearfully in a corner." Maybe he's nuts?

[People walk over an interactive installation called "Onskebronn" by German artist Sven Beyer at a train station in Berlin today. Movements are retraced as reprocessed projections on an LED-platform on the floor. Image via AP]

Ohio GOP nominee for Congress Rich Iott likes to dress up as a Nazi officer and run around with other weirdos in the woods on weekends. But don't worry, he has only a "purely historical interest in World War II."

Last month, liberals' 2010 war on Christmas began. Now, a group of German Catholics are joining in, by calling for "Santa Claus-free zones." They want Santa replaced with Saint Nicolas, because Santa is "an invention of the advertising industry." Blasphemy!

When a video clip of a girl drowning puppies appeared online, 4chan went to work and identified the perpetrator, a girl in Bosnia. The police there tracked her down. And now: she's reportedly getting off without being charged.

Five German citizens—alleged militants—were killed during a drone strike in Pakistan.

The warmongering Germans will pay off the final $84 million in reparations from World War I this weekend. Hooray! These losers have been whining and starting Holocausts over these debts for 91 years. Complain to Kaiser Wilhelm, not us.

A lot of Germans are not happy that Google is about to start mapping their streets for Google Street View. More than 100,000 have taken up Google's offer to obscure their homes on Street View maps.

[A woman races across a lake at Ludwigsburg Castle in a hollowed out pumpkin during the Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival in Germany today. Image via Getty]

A board member of Germany's central bank told the German paper Welt am Sontag that "all Jews share a certain gene." As you might imagine, everyone is feeling just great about a powerful German just sharing his opinion about Jews.