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New HIV infection cases diagnosed by man sex with man (MSM) and heterosexual contact, percentage (%) in Germany from year 1997 to 2006:

Year : MSM Cases ( % MSM )
1997 — 762 ( 37.8 )
1998 — 868 ( 39.3 )
1999 — 677 ( 37.9 )
2000 — 648 ( 38.5 )
2001 — 513 ( 39.2 )
2002 — 757 ( 40.5 )
2003 — 822 ( 43.2 )
2004 — 1086 ( 48.5 )
2005 — 1213 ( 49.9 )
2006 — 1412 ( 51.9 )

Year : Heterosexual ( % Heterosexual )
1997 — 527 ( 26.2 )
1998 — 679 ( 30.7 )
1999 — 594 ( 33.3 )
2000 — 599 ( 35.6 )
2001 — 480 ( 36.7 )
2002 — 619 ( 33.2 )
2003 — 574 ( 30.2 )
2004 — 621 ( 27.8 )
2005 — 687 ( 28.2 )
2006 — 714 ( 26.3 )

Sources:
1. WHO - European health for all database (HFA-DB)
2. Europe - HIV

HIV cases reported from year 1990 to 2006 in Germany:

Year — Total Cases / Cases per 100 000 population
1993 — 2407 / 2.66
1994 — 2310 / 2.64
1995 — 2174 / 2.46
1996 — 1967 / 2.27
1997 — 2014 / 2.36
1998 — 2210 / 2.58
1999 — 1786 / 2.10
2000 — 1684 / 1.98
2001 — 1308 / 1.55
2002 — 1867 / 2.22
2003 — 1902 / 2.24
2004 — 2237 / 2.66
2005 — 2433 / 2.90
2006 — 2718 / 3.24

Source:
1. WHO Regional Office for Europe - CISID

Prisoner rate (per 100 000 population) for countries France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for year 1987 - 2002:

Marriage and divorce rates (per 1000 population) in Germany from year 1970 to 2004:

Source: OECD Index of Statistical Variables - Population, Marriage and Divorce

Source: Eurobarometer - Europeans and Organ Donation

Question 1: Would you be willing to donate one of your organs to an organ donation service immediately after your death? 
- % of participants say Yes.

Sweden - 81%
Finland - 73%
Belgium - 71%
Denmark - 69%
Netherlands - 69%
France - 67%
Ireland - 67%
Portugal - 66%
UK - 63%
Luxembourg - 62%
Spain - 57%
Greece - 53%
Germany - 46%
Italy - 45%
Austria - 33%

Question 2: If you were asked in a hospital to donate an organ from a deceased close family member, would you agree?
- % of participants say Yes.

Sweden - 74%
Finland - 73%
Netherlands - 66%
Belgium - 65%
Denmark - 63%
Portugal - 63%
UK - 63%
Luxembourg - 62%
France - 61%
Spain - 59%
Ireland - 57%
Greece - 54%
Germany - 46%
Italy - 39%
Austria - 35%

Question 3: Do you already have an organ donation card?
- % of participants say Yes:

Netherlands - 44%
Sweden - 30%
Ireland - 29%
UK- 26%
Denmark - 25%
Finland - 17%
Luxembourg - 14%
Italy - 13%
France - 10%
Germany - 9%
Spain - 7%
Austria - 4%
Belgium - 3%
Greece - 3%
Portugal - 2%  

P/S: I thought it would be interesting to see what is the difference between people’s willing to donate their organ and they actually have an organ card.  Well, they could have whatever reason to not having the organ donation card yet…

Countries / (% of participants willing to donate organ) - (% of participants have the card) 
Netherlands : -25%
Austria : -29%
Italy : -32%
Germany : -37%
UK : -37%
Ireland : -38%
Denmark : -44%
Luxembourg : -48%
Greece : -50%
Spain : -50%
Sweden : -51%
Finland : -56%
France : -57%
Portugal : -64%
Belgium : -68%

Normally, if someone ordinary eat a €22 (£16) lobster meal, there is nothing unusual about it… but when it comes to this lady and her story of lobster, her quote caught my eyes…

A clearly embarrassed Wagenknecht - who was brought up on the works of Marx and Engels, joined the East German communists in 1989, and allegedly mourned the fall of the Berlin Wall - has admitted both to eating the lobster, and erasing the pictures.
But she defended her actions.
“I don’t do anything that I say others shouldn’t do,” she told the daily TAZ. “On the contrary, I’m fighting for a society in which everyone can afford to eat lobster.“
As to why she erased the pictures? “I didn’t like them,” she said.