Ex-German education minister loses plagiarism case

BERLIN (AP) — A former education minister in Germany who resigned over plagiarism allegations has lost a legal bid to have her doctorate restored.

Annette Schavan, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, quit in February 2013 after an academic panel at Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf reviewed her 1980 doctoral thesis, discovered uncredited passages from others’ work throughout her paper, and revoked her degree.