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When Oskar Speck pushed a folding kayak into Germany's Danube River in May 1932, he wasn't chasing a world record. The 25-year-old electrical contractor had lost his business during the Great Depression and hoped to paddle as far as Cyprus, where jobs were available in the island's copper mines.

Director Steven Spielberg, picking up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new details of his planned HBO series.

The next World Bank president should be a woman, Germany's international development minister told Reuters in remarks that could strengthen the potential candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the American-Nigerian head of the World Trade Organization.