Italy's new foreign minister Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle called for an end to violence in Syria and Egypt after talks on key European issues in Rome Sunday.

"The two ministers expressed deep concern for the escalation of violence in Syria" and reiterated their support for an Arab League roadmap for peace in the country, they said in a joint statement.

European nations said Thursday they have key Arab support for a U.N. resolution condemning human rights abuses by the Syrian government.

Diplomats from Germany, France and Britain tabled the resolution at the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee on Thursday for a vote expected next Tuesday, officials said.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had modified the design of its newest tablet PC to bypass a sales ban in Germany and would start selling it there as early as this week.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1N, based on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, has a different metal frame and the location of the speakers has been changed, a spokesman for the South Korean company told Agence France Presse.

Germany, Britain and France are pressing for a U.N. resolution that would strongly condemn Syria's human rights violations and call for an immediate halt to all violence in the country.

The three European countries decided to move ahead with the General Assembly resolution after the Arab League confirmed its suspension of Syria Wednesday and gave Bashar Assad's government three days to halt the violence against civilians and accept an observer mission or face economic sanctions.

EU leaders called on Wednesday for Brussels to have power to rewrite national budgets to ensure the euro survives amid concerns that such discipline could clash with democracy.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Brussels would have to be given the power to scrutinize national budgets and demand changes before they are adopted.

EU foreign ministers went into talks Monday calling for increased pressure on Iran over its controversial nuclear program but split over talk of military action.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle ruled out any idea of military action once and for all, saying firmly on arrival: "We are not taking part in the discussion on military intervention."

Germany said Monday it would call for fresh "pressure" on Iran to comply with international commitments on its nuclear program if a key report this week reveals further defiance.

A foreign ministry spokesman said ahead of the report from the U.N. atomic watchdog, which diplomats say contains fresh evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons drive, that Berlin remained suspicious of Tehran's plans.

A cleaning woman at a German museum who mistook a sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition, a spokeswoman for the western city of Dortmund said Thursday.

The cleaner at the city's Ostwall Museum went to work on the Martin Kippenberger installation entitled "When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling" which was valued by insurers at 800,000 Euros ($1.1 million), she said.

A fan site for a French rugby union team is recovering after hackers mistook it for the website of the German stock exchange and launched an attack.

The allezdax.com website for second division Dax in rugby-loving south-west France was shut down for two weeks after its usual 700 daily page hits -- 1,200 on match days -- skyrocketed to 80,000 because of the attack.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joked ahead of a crunch summit on the Eurozone debt crisis Wednesday that she loved Greeks "when they act reasonably".

Asked at an event marking 50 years since Germany invited Turks as "guest workers" to fill a yawning labor market gap, Merkel was asked if she didn't long for the days when integration of Turks was a major worry on her political agenda.