December 6, 2009
A man accused of trying to blackmail billionaire Dietmar Hopp for more than €5 million will face court this week, after a classic Hollywood-style sting conducted in top secret. READ (1 COMMENT) »
The first seal-watching expeditions to see grey seals on the north German coast started this weekend after the population was considered stable enough to cope with public observation. READ »
Germany's environment minister said the Copenhagen climate summit would fail if nations did not agree to a maximum two-degree rise in Earth's temperature, in an interview published on Sunday. READ »
Egypt has not demanded the return of the Nefertiti bust which has pride of place in Berlin’s Neues Museum, according to Michael Eissenhauer, head of the city’s museums, stressing that it is there to stay. READ »
Italian police are investigating the murder of a German woman whose body was found next to a motorway in the Calabria region on Saturday. READ »
A group calling themselves ‘the hoodie wearers’ has claimed responsibility for the Hamburg police station attack on Thursday, saying it was to mark the first anniversary of the death of a teenager in Greece who was shot by police. READ (1 COMMENT) »
The death certificate of German World War I fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen has turned up in western Poland, the daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported Saturday. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Saturday that it was wrong to consider Switzerland a nation of bigots after its vote in favour of a ban on building new mosque minarets. READ (9 COMMENTS) »
The Opel restructuring plan is pretty much finished, with around 8,300 jobs set to be cut, according to Nick Reilly, new chairman of General Motors Europe, who talked about it in a telephone conference on Saturday. READ »
Germany's Deutsche Bahn said Friday it had been selected to operate trains and stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro in and around the English cities of Newcastle and Sunderland. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Jost Müller-Neuhof from Der Tagesspiegel wonders how Germans can slam a Swiss vote to ban minarets on mosques as an attack on religious freedom yet blithely accept being told by Christian churches they can't shop on Sundays. READ (4 COMMENTS) »
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy cracks open the tiny door to Advent calendar torture. READ (6 COMMENTS) »
The German government’s newly proposed “integration contract” for immigrants could be a step forward – but only if its a two-way commitment, argues Der Tagesspiegel’s Jost Müller-Neuhof. READ (41 COMMENTS) »
Bored in Bonn? Confused in Cologne? Depressed in Düsseldorf? Not anymore. This month we inaugurate our partnership with Rhine-online, an English-language guide to what’s going on in the Rhineland. READ »
Each December 6, German children celebrate Nikolaus. Why does the Santa look-alike come so early and why do all the children place their shoes outside on the evening before? The Local has the lowdown. READ (4 COMMENTS) »
This Week's Highlights: Tattoos in Berlin, The Pet Shop Boys play Hamburg and Munich gets mediaeval for Christmas. READ »
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