100 years ago the Titanic clashed with an iceberg and more than 1500 people died that night. Among them 8 musicians who played until the bitter end. But they were not able to finish their last song. 100 years later 8 musicians from the Konzerthaus Dortmund went to the same place the tragedy happened and finished the job of their famous forerunners.

The Nord Stream pipeline will link Russia and the European Union via the Baltic Sea directly and transporting natural gas to supply electricity to businesses and households. In the end of 2011 should be completed the first pipeline to supply Europe with gas, a second tube will deliver gas from 2012. m4-tv accompanies the project in broadcast videos and rough cuts.

With the famous Dakar Rally, unquestionably the toughest motor race in the world, it\'s first and foremost all about getting through, for both people and material. And even when we as normal car drivers don\'t directly profit from the sometimes unbelievable performances of the racing drivers, we at least benefit from the experience gained from the racing cars and their components. Each part, from the smallest screw up to a twin turbo fuel injection system, is subjected to the very toughest of tests during the Dakar Rally. And such components have to supply a maximum of performance ? after all, for the teams it\'s all about winning. At the end of the rally the engineers know a whole lot more, yet again: knowledge invested in the construction of Golf & Co.

In presence of Russia\'s President Dimitri Medvedev the official ceremony for the laying of the Nord Stream pipeline took place in the Russian town of Vyborg. Roughly two 1220 km pipelines will be laid on the bed of the Baltic Sea between the Russian town of Vyborg and the German town of Lubmin. More than 200.000 single pipes need to be welded together, each of the 12 m long pipes has a diameter of 1,4 m and weighs about 24 tons. With start of the heating season 2011 the first gas will flow through the pipeline.