First high-speed train connecting Berlin and Paris sets off

The first express train on a new service connecting Berlin and Paris departed from the German capital on Monday. The train, which set off from Berlin's main station shortly after noon (1100 GMT), is expected to arrive in the French capital some eight hours later at 7:55 pm following stops in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg. The head of Germany's national railway operator Deutsche Bahn, Richard Lutz, Transport Minister Volker Wissing and the French ambassador in Germany, François Delattre, we