THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Chancellor Angela Merkel's defence minister was stripped of his doctorate on Wednesday by the German university that awarded the title, after he admitted to flaws in a thesis that is the focus of a plagiarism row.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg apologised "from the bottom of my heart" to parliament earlier on Wednesday for errors he blamed on a busy workload.
But he said he would not resign over the allegations and rejected accusations of plagiarism, insisting he had not deliberately deceived anyone. >>> | Thursday, February 24, 2011
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