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How do you celebrate Christmas? What's on your Christmas wish list? Students from the Bayswater South Primary and Amsleigh Park Primary School tell us how they celebrate Christmas.

This week's highlights with CJ Delling: Romney's security data becomes confetti, Egypt's president Mursi under the christmas tree and Sebastian Vettel as EU's special envoy.

"Taxi payment giant Cabcharge is responsible for the high service fees" - says German Jost Stollmann. He is CEO of Cabcharge's competitor Tyro Payments.

Only two journalists work for the newspaper Die Woche. Thanks to modern technology, a newspaper can be produced by only so few staff. Many readers still appreciate the weekly news service.

30 years old and already a successful businessman: Finn Hänsel from Flensburg is a founder of Australia's leading online fashion retailer "The Iconic".

Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Udo Lindenberg: German Rock music has many different faces. Kurt Mitzkatis from Osnabrück knows nearly all of them.

What happens after death? Funeral traditions are changing in Germany: New business ideas replace the traditional way.

Just days after the federal government's announcement of a new and tougher asylum seeker policy, the opposition has countered with a changed policy of its own.    

In today's Echo Helvetia we speak to Rob Phillips from Murdoch University in Perth. A former President of the Swiss Club of W.A., he's just returned from Switzerland, where he crossed the Alps on foot with his 83-year-old father-in-law.

There is not much in life that has not been altered by the introduction of the Internet 20 odd years ago. While most see our virtual lives as something positive, some question the dangers linked to the www.      

Researchers on board of an Australian icebreaker spent two months in Antarctica. Their German Science Leader Dr Klaus Meiners talks about the newest results.

This week's highlights with CJ Delling: Barack Obama's and Angela Merkel's quick stop-overs, David Beckham's future in Australia and the internet crash in the pre-Christmas period.

He started his directorship at the German International School at the start of this term. Erhard Seifert tells us about his first impressions of his new position in Australia, current activities at the school and his plans for the future. I met hi...

Her patients bark and often whine: Rebecca Gäng is a German born veterinarian in a country town near Melbourne.

50 years ago, America and the Soviet Union were enemies in the Cold War. Today, they work side by side. Occasional political differences aside, Washington and Moscow often work in unison. Best example: The International Space Station (ISS).