New German train safety fear

All ten of Germany's latest high-speed trains have been taken out of service after one derailed on Wednesday.

The train came off the track twice at slow speed while travelling without passengers to a workshop in Berlin.

Correspondents say that this latest incident will raise new concerns over the safety of Germany's high-speed trains.

In 1998, a wheel broke on an earlier version of the train at two-hundred kilometres an hour, causing it to crash into a bridge, and kill more than one-hundred people.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service