German defense minister accused of plagiarism

Germany's opposition and press had a field day Thursday after the suave and popular defence minister was accused of ripping off others' work, even from the US embassy website, for his doctoral thesis. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg "did not credit me as the author of excerpts that came from an article I once wrote," Barbara Zehnpfennig, a professor at Passau University, told rolling news channel N24. "This breaks all academic rules." She is allegedly not the only source not properly cited in the thesis on constitutional law, which earned him top marks in 2007, with several law professors accusing him of...