diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index 644e0d2bb1..4e45175832 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'science_news', 'the_nation', 'lrb', 'harpers_full', 'liberation',
            'linux_magazine', 'telegraph_uk', 'utne', 'sciencedaily', 'forbes',
            'time_magazine', 'endgadget', 'fudzilla', 'nspm_int', 'nspm', 'pescanik',
-           'spiegel_int', 'themarketticker', 'tomshardware', 'xkcd',
+           'spiegel_int', 'themarketticker', 'tomshardware', 'xkcd', 'ftd', 'zdnet',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ftd.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ftd.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8d188d65f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_ftd.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+
+'''
+Fetch FTD.
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+
+class FTheiseDe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    
+    title = 'FTD'
+    description = 'Financial Times Deutschland'
+    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner'
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
+    max_articles_per_feed = 40
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    
+    remove_tags = [dict(id='navi_top'),
+		   dict(id='topbanner'),
+		   dict(id='seitenkopf'),
+		   dict(id='footer'),
+		   dict(id='rating_open'),
+		   dict(id='ADS_Top'),
+		   dict(id='ADS_Middle1'),
+		   #dict(id='IDMS_ajax_chart_price_information_table'),
+		   dict(id='ivwimg'),
+		   dict(name='span', attrs={'class':'rsaquo'}),
+		   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'zwischenhead'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'chartBox'}),
+		   dict(name='span', attrs={'class':'vote_455857'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'relatedhalb'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'bpoll'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'pollokknopf'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'videohint'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'videoshadow'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'boxresp videorahmen'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'boxresp'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'abspielen'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'wertungoben'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'artikelfuss'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'artikelsplitfaq'})]
+    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'artikelfuss'})]
+    
+    feeds =  [ ('FTD', 'http://www.ftd.de/static/ticker/ftd-topnews.rdf') ] 
+    
+
+!DSPAM:3,496093f075721028352036!
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_zdnet.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_zdnet.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f31a99a6c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_zdnet.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+
+'''
+Fetch zdnet.
+'''
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+import re
+
+
+class cdnet(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    
+    title = 'zdnet'
+    description = 'zdnet security'
+    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner'
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
+    max_articles_per_feed = 40
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
+
+    #preprocess_regexps = \
+#	[(re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in
+#		[
+#		(r'<84>', lambda match: ''),
+#		(r'<93>', lambda match: ''),
+#		]
+#	]
+    
+    remove_tags = [dict(id='eyebrows'),
+		   dict(id='header'),
+		   dict(id='search'),
+		   dict(id='nav'),
+		   dict(id=''),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'banner'}),
+		   dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'tags'}),
+		   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'special1'})]
+    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'bloggerDesc clear'})]
+    
+    feeds =  [ ('zdnet', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/zdnet/security') ] 
+    
+
+
+
+
+!DSPAM:3,496093f075721028352036!