German airports extinct volcano ash

  Grimsvotn began erupting Saturday the Germany is to close its northern airspace Wednesday because of ash from a volcano in eruption in Iceland, officials said.

Bremen Airport shut 0300 GMT Hamburg would close at 0400 GMT, meteorological service of the Germany said.

The air space over Berlin and Hanover can also be affected.

Airlines UK have already cancelled flights in some parts of Scotland and Northern England. A was also disrupted the movement of air Norway and the Denmark.

Controller of air traffic in the Europe Eurocontrol said about 500 flights were cancelled because of the closure of some parts of the airspace of Britain.

The service said there was a strong possibility that the cloud of ash would travel to parts of Denmark, the Norway and the Sweden, but the impact on flights would be probably limited.

Britain's weather service, said that the concentration of volcanic ash in the UK airspace would decrease significantly during Wednesday.

France civil aviation authority said it expects a disturbance very little air traffic and do not expect to close all of the airspace of the country.

Grimsvotn volcano began erupting Saturday, sending clouds of ash high into the air.

Experts say that the eruption is on a different scale to that of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano last year, when millions of travellers were blocked in concerns about volcanic ash damage could cause to aircraft engines.

The Grimsvotn ash particles are larger than those of Eyjafjallajokull and therefore fall to the ground more quickly.

A Forecaster with the meteorological service of the said Iceland Grimsvotn produced less ash Tuesday and the plume had decreased to about 5 000 m height (16, 400 ft).

Hairdresser German price best beard

 Mr. Weisser said his beard has reached its size when it had not been designated a German Barber won the title of best beard of the world at the world beard and Moustache Championship in TrondheimNorvège.

Elmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 participants at the price with his elaborate sculptures hair from the face of a moose.

This is the third time, M. Weisser became champion.

In 2005, he won with a beard of style in the shape of the door with a representation of London Bridge and Brandenberg in Berlin in 2007.

He said he began to prepare its creation for the event in Trondheim, at 7 p.m., with the help of his sister.

"When my beard is not style, he descends to my waist size." "It's kind of fold," he told the AFP news agency.

The world beard and Moustache Championship has been run every two years since 1995 and its organizers, saying that it is "the first event in the international sport of bearding".

Participants from around the world compete in 14 categories, including natural goatee, favourite freestyle, Hungarian moustache and Imperial partial beard.

Organizers say that the field has traditionally been dominated by Europeans, but that the United States, which hosted the event twice, are quickly becoming "the new facial hair super world power."

Police arrest German three al Qaeda suspects (Reuters)

German police arrested three suspected al-Qaeda members Friday, thus avoiding the "an imminent danger and concrete" of a terrorist operation, authorities said.

The Bild newspaper CITES safety as sources stating that the three, all young Moroccans, were arrested in Duesseldorf and Bochum. He said police seized large quantities of explosives.

"We succeeded in preventing a concrete and imminent danger", Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich said in a statement. "This proves that the Germany continues to be in the crosshairs of international terrorists, and we must remain vigilant."

Police and federal prosecutors had been studying the three since April 15 on the alleged membership in an organization terrorist and other costs.

European countries have taken with militant threats for years, regularly arresting individuals or groups suspected of planning any fear attacks may reflect the attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, which killed more than 200 people.

Germany has been largely spared similar violence, even if it has been the target of threats on the Web sites of Islamists and responsible security have issued warnings that militants sleeper cells may be present in the country.

Berlin saw its territory as a potential target because it has almost 5,000 members stationed in Afghanistan, the third largest contingent of the international force of 150,000 fight against the insurgency led by the Taliban.

Last November, the Interior Ministry tightened security at stations and airports potential targets after he said he learned of a plot, although increased alerts were lifted later.

MILITARY BASES

Activists have also focused on the Germany his role as host to the largest military bases in Europe U.S..

In March, a gunman shot dead two U.S. Airmen and wounded two others at Frankfurt airport, during an attack prosecutors said was probably motivated by anger over the war in Afghanistan.

The three men arrested Friday were to appear before an investigating judge on Saturday, and a press conference was scheduled for 11: 00 (0900 GMT) at the headquarters of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe on the same day.

Bild said that the arrests were made at the police became suspicious after mobile phones and computers of suspects.

He said that the large amount of explosives recovered included acetone, a volatile substance that is popular with activists since it can easily pass through detectors typically designed to locate nitrogenous compounds.

ZDF German television station, said the three were all German nationals, of which one was formed abroad and he had been arrested before they could finish building a bomb.

Police did not confirm the report Bild that the suspects were Moroccans, or say if the arrests were related to an explosion in a cafe in the city of Marrakech Moroccan Thursday in which 15 people were killed.