German minister gives up PhD title amid scandal

“Germany’s defense minister said Monday he would give up his doctorate title in an attempt to quell a plagiarism scandal that has prompted a criminal investigation. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany’s most popular politician and a potential future candidate for chancellor has been accused by newspapers of copying parts of his doctoral dissertation without correctly attributing them.” - story

German internet site GuttenPlag claims 3,521 out of 16,325 lines in the thesis are copied - an impressive 21.5% (and they’re not even done, yet). - story, unfortunately only in German.