Hours after Germany's upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, approved a package of measures to curb high fuel prices, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed plan into law on Friday. The bill officially takes effect once it is published in the Federal Law Gazette.

Rescuers on Thursday again attempted and failed to free a humpback whale stranded on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, employing a large suction dredger to remove sand around the animal. Two excavators dug a trench in an attempt to free the whale, which has been stuck in shallow waters at the Timmendorfer Strand beach since early on Monday, drawing heavy media attention.

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