Twenty-four people were injured when a regional express train crashed into a freight train outside Berlin, a spokesman for the German rail authority said Friday.
Airlines canceled more than 200 flights operating out of Germany's two largest airports because of public workers' strike.
A three-day strike by a German train drivers' union halted travel across the country Thursday as the workers extended the action to include passenger trains.
CNN's Diana Magnay reports from Berlin, where a nationwide rail strike has hit passengers.
Fortune: The fast trackupdated: Mon Nov 12 2007 15:19:00
The sensation of speed is as muted as the Christian Lacroix interiors of the first-class carriages. Passengers stroll the corridors without lurching from side to side. Drinks at the bar are neither shaken nor stirred by the train's acceleration. Only the green rush of the Champagne countryside whooshing by at 200 mph vouches for the velocity of France's newest and fastest TGV, as it hurtles along the track from Paris to Strasbourg.
Following are some facts about the Transrapid high-tech train that crashed on a test run in Germany on Friday:
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