Germany's defence minister has denied newspaper allegations that he committed plagiarism in his PhD thesis.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg got top marks for his 2006 law dissertation from the University of Bayreuth.
But the Suddeutsche Zeitung says several long passages in the thesis seem to have just been lifted from other people's work.
The telegenic minister has dismissed the accusations as "absurd".
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Note: 17 February 2011 Last updated at 01:14 GMT