May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Brandenburg":
National: 20 May 12
After the embarrassing cancellation of the new Berlin airport opening and the shock of the new date being in nine months, the team is under extra pressure to make sure it works this time.
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Politics: 16 May 12
German left-wing extremists have claimed responsibility for an arson attack against the man they hold responsible for impovershing the Greek people. The attackers burned his wife’s car and threw paint and stones at his house.
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National: 13 May 12
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit was laughed down while addressing crowds visiting Berlin’s new international airport, which has been hit by catastrophic, embarrassing delays and, it emerged this weekend, is only half finished.
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National: 11 May 12
Fresh outrage has been sparked in Berlin by revelations that the man responsible for disastrous delays on the German capital's new airport wrote a PhD while on the job - on "optimizing complex construction projects."
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National: 8 May 12
Berlin‘s new international airport will not open as planned on June 3, leaving politicians fuming with anger and embarrassment. The delay was confirmed on Tuesday in an excruciating press conference – and no new date in sight.
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Society: 5 May 12
A two-year-old camel named Leila showed off her new blue and white cast in Berlin Friday after undergoing an operation on a badly broken leg.
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National: 27 Apr 12
Germany's powerful IG Metall labour union called on Friday for country-wide strikes in the key engineering and metalworking sectors from this weekend in an escalating dispute over pay.
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National: 24 Apr 12
Around 3,000 taxis drove in convoy through central Berlin on Monday in protest at a huge rise in the extra fee for taking people to the German capital's new airport, set to open at the start of June.
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National: 21 Apr 12
The red sandstone ruins of Heidelberg castle in Baden-Wüttemberg form Germany's most popular sightseeing destination for foreign tourists, according to a new study.
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Business & Money: 18 Apr 12
German solar energy took another blow this week when US company First Solar confirmed the closure of a Brandenburg factory and the loss of more than 1,200 jobs.
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National: 11 Apr 12
The biggest move in recent German history has begun with staff at Berlin’s two airports starting to pack up 55,000 cubic metres of equipment ready to move to the capital’s new international airport.
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National: 10 Apr 12
Victims' rights organisations and a police union sharply attacked a plan backed by 10 German states to allow prisoners convicted of dangerous crimes to apply for "holidays" after just five years in jail rather than the current 10.
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National: 9 Apr 12
Thousands took to the streets of Germany for traditional Easter marches against war over the weekend. On Saturday alone there were peaceful protests in more than 75 towns and cities.
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National: 7 Apr 12
White tailed eagles, one of Germany’s biggest birds of prey, are soaring to record numbers again off the country’s northern coastline, having pulled back from the brink of extinction just a century ago, new figures show.
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National: 6 Apr 12
Fuel theft has risen in Germany as the country experiences its highest ever petrol and diesel prices, several police forces reported Friday. One large fuel booty was spirited away in the fairytale town of Hamelin.
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Society: 6 Apr 12
A dentist whose finger was cut off by two thieves when they robbed his practise has provided police with a clear picture - of one of his attackers' teeth.
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Society: 29 Mar 12
German police are appealing to 9,000 men to take part in a mass DNA test, in the hunt for the killer of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a lake.
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Society: 27 Mar 12
Police in the eastern German state of Brandenburg are hunting for two men who robbed a dentist on Monday in broad daylight and cut off his finger with a pair of garden shears.
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National: 25 Mar 12
Crowds of protesters gathered at Germany's biggest airports on Saturday to stage mass demonstrations against air traffic noise. A combined 20,000 people took part in the protests in Berlin and Frankfurt alone.
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Education: 12 Mar 12
German schools are only good in areas where they are unfair – and where they are fair, they are generally no good, according to a damning report published on Monday by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
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Society: 9 Mar 12
Hotels who want to ban extremist guests can do so – but only if their booking has not been confirmed, the German Supreme Court (BGH) said on Friday.
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National: 3 Mar 12
A tiny baby boar with a broken leg is now recovering in a foster home, thanks to a young German family who went out for a walk and saw the helpless animal.
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National: 26 Feb 12
A Berlin initiative is on a mission to revolutionise meat consumption. At Meine Kleine Farm, consumers can see a picture of the pig they are eating on the packaging. They can even choose which pig will be slaughtered for sausages.
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Society: 14 Feb 12
A French bulldog has adopted a newborn litter of six German wild boars after they were found cold and starving in the woods, their mother possibly killed by hunters.
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Society: 14 Feb 12
Some of Germany’s most famous trees, the limes along Berlin’s central boulevard Unter den Linden, were chopped down on Monday to enable construction of an underground train line.
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National: 6 Feb 12
Germany shivered through record low temperatures of -29 degrees Celsius overnight, but the German Weather Service has forecast an even deeper freeze ahead of snow showers midweek.
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National: 1 Feb 12
A deep freeze which sent thermometers plummeting and people across Germany reaching for their gloves this week is set to continue, hitting lows of minus 20 degrees Celsius in some areas.
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Lifestyle: 27 Jan 12
This Week's Highlights: Hitchcock in Frankfurt, indie rock in Munich, and an homage to an electronic music pioneer in Berlin.
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Society: 26 Jan 12
The number of children living on state benefits in Germany has dropped significantly in the past five years, it was reported Thursday.
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Society: 24 Jan 12
Germans marked the 300th birthday of Prussian king Frederick the Great’s on Tuesday. His admirers visited his grave in Potsdam to lay flowers and potatoes in honour of the enlightened monarch.
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National: 19 Jan 12
A former police officer turned businessman has been jailed for more than four years for ditching thousands of tonnes of dangerous garbage in dumps that he was being paid to decommission.
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Society: 18 Jan 12
The long, dark nights and short, chilly days of January in Germany can fuel dreams of running off to a tropical island. People living in or near Berlin can hop on the train and have a day out on one. Hannah Cleaver investigated.
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Society: 16 Jan 12
Berlin Fashion Week kicks off on Tuesday, with an array of shows throughout the city during the week, runway shows at the Brandenburg Gate and the three-day Bread and Butter trade fair at Tempelhof Airport.
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National: 12 Jan 12
President Christian Wulff hosted what was reportedly a tense New Year’s reception on Thursday, as the first open calls for his resignation came from members of parliament in his own political party.
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Society: 9 Jan 12
Three children die each day in Germany from accidents, violence and suicide, according to new figures released Monday which show that the dangers increase as adulthood approaches.
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Society: 3 Jan 12
A policeman has received a two-year suspended sentence and a €3,000 fine in the eastern German state of Brandenburg for accepting a 50-percent rebate in an illegal brothel in exchange for police information.
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Society: 2 Jan 12
Poland’s ambassador to Germany says it is too easy to steal German cars – and this is why so many of them end up across the border in his country.
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Society: 1 Jan 12
The official New Year's celebrations in the German capital drew over a million people on Saturday night. Overcrowding meant that the two-kilometre "party-mile" in front of the Brandenburg Gate was closed at 10 p.m.
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Society: 31 Dec 11
A million people are expected to gather in the centre of Berlin on Saturday night for a free concert and countdown to the New Year, when fireworks will fill the sky.
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Society: 31 Dec 11
Why do Germans call New Year's Eve Silvester? And what's with all the mustard-filled doughnuts, firecrackers, and melted lead? The Local has the lowdown.
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Society: 29 Dec 11
As the drinks flow over the days and nights leading up to January 1, spare a thought for the bumper crop of potatoes which introduced northern Germany to large-scale spirit making. Caitlan Carroll looked at what has evolved.
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National: 22 Dec 11
Germany’s version of Santa Claus has responded to more than 275,000 letters sent to him in at an address in the eastern state of Brandenburg from eager children around the world, according to Deutsche Post.
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National: 17 Dec 11
The winter storm ‘Joachim’ had largely blown over Germany by Saturday morning and moved on to Poland, where at least four people were hurt,
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National: 15 Dec 11
The German capital’s entire commuter train system broke down on Thursday afternoon, leaving thousands stuck in trains on the tracks. The Berlin authorities do not suspect an attack behind the S-Bahn malfunction.
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National: 2 Dec 11
A former neo-Nazi tells The Local how he broke out of extremism, describes violence in the far-right scene and offers his view of the latest revelations about neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany.
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National: 27 Nov 11
Trains are running once again between Berlin and Hamburg after workers cleared the rail lines Saturday evening following a suspected arsonist fire on the tracks.
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National: 25 Nov 11
Saturday marks 50 years since the deformity-causing drug thalidomide was banned in Germany. Thousands of victims will protest in Berlin to call for greater compensation and recognition of their suffering. Jessica Ware reports.
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National: 24 Nov 11
German authorities on Thursday arrested, then arraigned, another suspected helper of a neo-Nazi terror group, as the authorities admitted files on the members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) may have been destroyed.
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National: 23 Nov 11
Two people have died and 16 have been injured in a massive car crash on the A9 motorway in Brandenburg.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
Nearly 180,000 bikes were stolen across Germany in 2010, estimated at a value of €120 million. According to a new study, more than over 90 percent of bicycle thefts go unsolved.
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National: 21 Nov 11
The chairman of parliament's interior affairs defended the German authorities' approach towards far-right extremism on Monday, but said state domestic intelligence agencies needed reform in the wake of a neo-Nazi murder spree.
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Society: 17 Nov 11
Berlin’s Jewish community has criticised the reinstatement of a radio host who sent an email to a listener which appeared to deny the Holocaust.
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National: 12 Nov 11
Thousands of demonstrators in Berlin and Frankfurt gathered on Saturday to protest against the continuing power of the banks. In the capital, protesters assembled to form a human chain.
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National: 6 Nov 11
Just two days before German university hospital doctors were due to go on strike, negotiators have broken the deadlock and both sides agreed on a pay rise for around 20,000 doctors in several German states.
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Society: 27 Oct 11
Fifty years ago on October 27, 1961, US and Soviet forces took the world to the brink of war at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie. Hannah Cleaver takes the temperature of the legendary Cold War flashpoint today.
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Society: 24 Oct 11
Murder squad detectives in Brandenburg are investigating a series of attacks using barbed wire strung up across routes used by motocross riders which left one man fighting for his life and several others injured.
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Society: 22 Oct 11
Hundreds of people again took to the streets of Frankfurt and Berlin on Saturday to demonstrate against perceived injustice in the financial system, but the crowds were notably smaller than those seen at protests one week ago.
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Society: 21 Oct 11
Germany might still be known for its high-speed autobahns, but in cities, bicycles are now so popular that a war of words has broken out between drivers and cyclists over who rules the road.
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Society: 20 Oct 11
Prosecutors are investigating claims that two 16-year-olds sexually attacked classmates at an elite sports school in northern Germany which trains the country's top young athletes.
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National: 16 Oct 11
Around 200 people camped out in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt overnight, organizers said, as anti-capitalism protesters planned a fresh demonstration in Berlin Sunday.
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National: 13 Oct 11
As further makeshift incendiary devices were found on Berlin’s rail network on Thursday, German officials disagreed on whether they represented a new dimension of violence by leftist extremists.
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Politics: 6 Oct 11
Authorities in the north east of Germany are preparing for uproar at Polish plans to build a nuclear power station near the border.
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National: 5 Oct 11
Germany's flirtation with sunny weather is fizzling out as a large low pressure system travels down from Scandinavia. With it will come rain showers, gusty winds and cloudy skies.
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Lifestyle: 29 Sep 11
This Week's Highlights: A reunification party in Berlin, Picasso portraits in Cologne, and film festivals in Munich and Hamburg.
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Society: 26 Sep 11
Hundreds of doctors at German university medical clinics began a series of two-hour strikes on Monday that will continue until Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s negotiations with the wage commission of the federal states (TdL) in Berlin.
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Politics: 23 Sep 11
Germany’s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has knocked down a proposal to start storing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide underground in a bid to reduce emissions.
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National: 23 Sep 11
During a sometimes emotional mass at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium Thursday evening, Pope Benedict XVI called on Germans to stand together with the Catholic Church despite recent scandal and controversy.
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Society: 22 Sep 11
As Pope Benedict XVI addressed the German parliament, Erin Huggins took to the sealed-off streets of central Berlin to see who was demonstrating against him.
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Science & Technology: 21 Sep 11
Operators of a sewage treatment plant in eastern Germany have saved around €10,000 over the last year – apparently by playing Mozart to their microbes. They are now calling for scientists to come and investigate.
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Business & Money: 20 Sep 11
As young people in Germany have literally 'gone west', small business owners in Eastern states face a quandary: Who will they pass their life’s work on to?
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Society: 20 Sep 11
Happy in Hamburg: People living in the northern port city are the most content Germans, according to a new study. While the eastern state of Thuringia has the grumpiest residents, overall the country is the happiest it's been in a decade.
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National: 17 Sep 11
An 18-month-old boy was separated from his father while on a regional train in the town of Jena on Friday. The doors closed while the child's father was still on the platform and the train left the station.
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Society: 16 Sep 11
An English-speaking teenager who walked out of the forest near Berlin told police he had been living in the woods for five years with his father, but had no idea who he was or where he came from.
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National: 16 Sep 11
Pope Benedict XVI’s official visit to Germany next week will be accompanied by unprecedented security measures, including ordering residents not to open their windows when the pontiff's motorcade passes and relocating a Muslim extremist.
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National: 13 Sep 11
As preparations are finalised for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Germany at the end of the month, a number of MPs have declared they will boycott his speech to parliament.
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National: 11 Sep 11
German President Christian Wulff commemorated the victims of September 11, 2001 at an ecumenical service in Berlin, the first of a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
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Travel: 7 Sep 11
North Rhine-Westphalia might be Germany’s most populous state, but a vast expanse of untouched nature lies not far from the dense urban area surrounding Cologne. Alexander Bakst goes cycling in the Eifel.
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Lifestyle: 6 Sep 11
Sushi might be a tasty treat, but it’s also an environmental disaster on your plate. Cinnamon Nippard reports on a German art project trying to make it from sustainable and regional sources.
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National: 3 Sep 11
Horst Kasner, the father of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, died on Friday at the age of 85, a government spokesperson said. The chancellor canceled all appointments scheduled for Saturday.
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Education: 30 Aug 11
Germany’s affordable universities have long attracted foreign students, but free language and introductory classes could soon be a thing of the past. Erin Huggins explores the trend toward pricey preparatory courses.
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Society: 30 Aug 11
The German government’s integration commissioner said Tuesday that former central banker Thilo Sarrazin damaged efforts to integrate immigrants with his controversial book “Germany Abolishes Itself,” which was published a year ago.
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Society: 29 Aug 11
Cold air will stream in from the North Sea this week, keeping northern Germany damp, while high pressure will clear out the clouds over the central and southern parts of the country.
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Society: 26 Aug 11
Germany’s high society event of the year is set for Saturday as the great-great grandson of Kaiser Wilhem II gets married at a royal palace in Potsdam.
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Society: 23 Aug 11
One of the most popular German comedians of the post-war period, Vicco von Bülow, better known by his stage name Loriot, has died at the age of 87.
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National: 18 Aug 11
Berlin police must now wear personal identification on their uniforms, but many German officers say the requirement puts their lives at risk. Moises Mendoza reports.
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National: 18 Aug 11
Cars burned in Berlin’s streets for the third consecutive night, as the authorities appeared unable to stop suspected anarchist arsonists. Vehicles were also set on fire in Brandenburg.
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Science & Technology: 16 Aug 11
Tests are underway to find out what species would be best as the next generation of Germany’s street trees. As every year urban trees are subject to pollution, poor water conditions and limited root growth area many become sick.
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National: 15 Aug 11
A post-mortem will be conducted on Monday on the bodies of two girls found in a burned-out car in Brandenburg after their severely injured father flagged down a car for help.
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Society: 12 Aug 11
One in three children are now born out of wedlock in Germany – double the proportion seen two decades ago – according to government figures signalling a strong shift in social norms.
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Society: 12 Aug 11
Police discovered the bodies of two dead children in a burned car in Brandenburg early Friday morning.
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Society: 12 Aug 11
Döner in Washington state? A Seattle man has opened “The Berliner,” a fast food outlet that may be the furthest place west selling the classic Turkish-German snack.
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Science & Technology: 11 Aug 11
Thousands of hackers and computer enthusiasts are flocking this week to a camp outside Berlin hosted by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) for five days of discussion and IT exploits.
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Politics: 9 Aug 11
A Berlin Green Party parliamentarian has been charged with assault after he allegedly started a fight over the price of currywurst at a city snack stand last Friday.
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Society: 9 Aug 11
Fifty years after its loathed Wall went up, Berlin has been gripped by a desire to preserve the few remaining traces of its painful division in order to bring the dark chapter of its history to life for visitors. AFP's Laurent Geslin reports.
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National: 30 Jul 11
Motorists taking a bathroom break at a rest stop in Brandenburg might not get much privacy these days. Thieves made off with 22 stainless-steel toilet stall doors within a few days and, up to now, police are clueless.
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National: 20 Jul 11
A broad swath of southeastern Germany has been warned to brace for potentially torrential rains and flooding for the rest of the week.
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National: 3 Jul 11
Berlin hosts an international gathering on climate change on Sunday to prepare the ground for the United Nations summit in South Africa.
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National: 25 Jun 11
Police in Brandenburg who discovered a large plot of cannabis called on the neighbouring house only to find an 84-year-old woman who had been feeding her rabbits with the plants.
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National: 25 Jun 11
The UN's education, scientific and cultural organization, UNESCO, named five German beech forests as Natural World Heritage sites on Saturday.
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Society: 24 Jun 11
A Berlin charity has been accused of housing Roma families in filthy flats and making a hefty profit from over-charging them for the accommodation – tax free, while speaking about them with a shocking lack of respect.
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