Germany's jubilant World Cup triumph : Germany's Merkel doesn't get carried away on her 60th birthday on Thursday.

 Germany's jubilant World Cup triumph :

Germany's Merkel  doesn't get carried away 

on her 60th birthday on Thursday.

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Angela Merkel, it seems, has had her fill of parties for now.

Just four days after joining Germany's jubilant soccer players in their dressing room to revel in their World Cup triumph, the chancellor is making sure she doesn't get carried away on her 60th birthday on Thursday.

It is hard to imagine a more low-key celebration for Merkel, named by Forbes magazine as the world's most powerful woman but still known as "Mutti", or Mummy, in her homeland where her no-nonsense attitude merely enhances her soaring popularity....................