May 22, 2012
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Lifestyle: 16 May 12
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Society: 4 May 12
The world's most striking press images go on display in Hamburg, northern Germany on Friday, when the World Press Photo 2012 exhibition opens its doors to visitors.
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Lifestyle: 2 May 12
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Lifestyle: 25 Apr 12
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 12
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Business & Money: 13 Apr 12
Germany's number two drug store chain, Rossmann, should look before it leaps into the gap left by the demise of rival Schlecker, German retail analysts have warned, saying the domestic market is nearly saturated.
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Business & Money: 12 Apr 12
Supermarket giant Rewe has pulled its "100% biodegradable" bags from shops after an environment organisation called them a "particularly cheeky case of consumer deception."
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Lifestyle: 11 Apr 12
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National: 7 Apr 12
A motorboat burst into flames and drifted around a harbour in northern Germany on Friday afternoon, injuring one person and causing an estimated quarter of a million euros in damage.
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National: 4 Apr 12
A man who killed a young American woman, using a penknife to stab her 180 times, was told he will probably spend the rest of his life in a secure psychiatric clinic by a court in Hamburg on Wednesday.
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National: 4 Apr 12
The young man accused of sexually abusing and killing a young girl in northern Germany turned himself in to police four months ago for undressing and photographing a seven-year-old girl – but nothing was done.
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National: 1 Apr 12
After the embarrassment of holding the wrong man for three days, police hunting the killer of a young girl in northern Germany have arrested another suspect – with reports that his DNA matches traces found at the scene of the crime.
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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 12
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National: 26 Mar 12
Bad news for sunbathers, but good news for plants, as a cold front pushes back across Germany this week bringing chilly temperatures and bucketfuls of rain, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Monday.
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Lifestyle: 14 Mar 12
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Lifestyle: 8 Mar 12
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National: 7 Mar 12
Winter has returned for one final round this week, but is set to ease its grip towards the weekend when mild temperatures will return to most of the country, according to the German Weather Service’s (DWD) latest report.
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Lifestyle: 29 Feb 12
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National: 27 Feb 12
Spring has sprung across Germany with early flowers greeting milder temperatures, as some areas are set to top 17 degrees Celsius by the end of the week.
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Lifestyle: 15 Feb 12
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Society: 15 Feb 12
A brief warm-up in northern parts of Germany will be followed by stormy, rainy and snowy weather. The southern and western parts of the country are already covered with the white stuff and should expect even more.
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Lifestyle: 8 Feb 12
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Society: 2 Feb 12
As a homeless man was found frozen to death on a bench in northern Germany on Thursday, authorities across the country called for people to show compassion for those in danger from the harsh weather.
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Lifestyle: 26 Jan 12
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National: 21 Jan 12
A huge pile-up on the A1 motorway near the town of Cloppenburg in northern Germany left 13 people injured on Friday, with the crash trapping several passengers inside their vehicles.
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National: 15 Jan 12
Police in northern Germany think they have found the body of an 18-year-old Kurdish woman who had gone missing in November. The police suspect that the woman’s family abducted her because they disapproved of her relationship.
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National: 14 Jan 12
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that Europe still had a "long road ahead" to restore investor confidence, after a raft of credit rating downgrades of EU countries.
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Society: 13 Jan 12
Dozens of people had to go to hospital after a pile of rubber boots caught on fire and gave off noxious fumes in a warehouse in northern Germany.
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Society: 6 Jan 12
A retiree in the Lower Saxony state of northern Germany with an obsession for parking regulations has drawn new public ire after it was revealed that he’s kept private records on all 30,000 parking violators he’s issued “tickets” to.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jan 12
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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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Lifestyle: 28 Dec 11
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National: 27 Dec 11
Germany experienced a Christmas holiday with some of the mildest weather seen in decades, according to meteorologists.
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National: 23 Dec 11
Motorists association ADAC has warned of serious traffic jams that could cause hundreds of kilometres of tailbacks on Friday and into Saturday as Germans begin their Christmas holidays.
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
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Education: 21 Dec 11
Being good-looking can be as useful as a university degree when it comes to wages and promotions, with a person's attractiveness directly affecting pay-packets and careers, according to a new study.
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Lifestyle: 14 Dec 11
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National: 12 Dec 11
Investigators suspect that a neo-Nazi terror group responsible for a series of murders in Germany may also have been behind the unexplained killing of a 70-year-old Israeli rabbi in Zurich a decade ago.
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Lifestyle: 7 Dec 11
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Society: 7 Dec 11
A group of allotment owners in northern Germany have been told to turn over a new leaf after they set a limit on how many people with foreign roots should be allowed to join their garden community.
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National: 5 Dec 11
The dry November weather in Germany is quickly becoming a distant memory, as the first snowfall of winter settles in the mountains. Elsewhere across the country, considerable rain and strong winds have been forecast.
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Lifestyle: 30 Nov 11
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National: 28 Nov 11
The train taking radioactive waste from a French reprocessing centre to storage in northern Germany completed the rail stage of its journey early on Monday morning, after days of fierce protests.
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National: 26 Nov 11
Thousands of anti-nuclear protestors were awaiting the arrival of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France to its destination in northern Germany Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 23 Nov 11
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Lifestyle: 16 Nov 11
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Lifestyle: 9 Nov 11
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Society: 3 Nov 11
Three premature babies have died in a Bremen clinic in northern Germany, after being infected with bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
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Lifestyle: 2 Nov 11
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National: 28 Oct 11
Mornings full of thick, grey fog will continue to greet Germany’s early risers, but the bright reds and yellows of autumn will be highlighted by sunshine-filled and comfortable afternoons across the country over the weekend.
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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: 8 Oct 11
The Brocken, the highest point in northern Germany, was covered in four centimetres of snow on Saturday after a cold front caused temperatures to plunge across the country.
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Lifestyle: 5 Oct 11
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Lifestyle: 28 Sep 11
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National: 22 Sep 11
As the autumnal equinox approaches at the end of this week, the change of season with its colourful leaves and shorter days is being sweetened by what Germans call Altweibersommer - or Indian Summer.
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Lifestyle: 21 Sep 11
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Society: 16 Sep 11
A brief respite of sunshine and warmer temperatures in Germany is set to be chased away by thunderstorms this weekend.
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Lifestyle: 14 Sep 11
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National: 9 Sep 11
This weekend could offer a brief summery break from the recent chilly weather in Germany, as temperatures reach upwards of 30 degrees in parts of the country amid abundant sunshine. Just don't wait until Sunday for your picnic.
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Lifestyle: 7 Sep 11
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Lifestyle: 31 Aug 11
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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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Politics: 26 Aug 11
Germany's Federal Auditing Office has criticized the Transportation Ministry for wasting taxpayer’s money by paying for personnel to attend a trade union conference on the North Sea island of Helgoland.
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Society: 25 Aug 11
Thunder, lightning and hail are set to sweep across Germany on Friday, bringing a stormy end to summer as a cold front causes temperatures to plunge.
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Lifestyle: 24 Aug 11
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Lifestyle: 17 Aug 11
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Politics: 16 Aug 11
Germany's centre-left Social Democrats have warned members of the hard-line socialist Left party they would be rejected as state coalition partners unless they condemn the building of the Berlin Wall.
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National: 12 Aug 11
Saturday should provide a brief dose of Vitamin D as the sun makes a one-day appearance throughout Germany before the weather continues its strike against summer, the German Weather Service (DWD) has reported.
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Lifestyle: 10 Aug 11
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Lifestyle: 3 Aug 11
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Lifestyle: 27 Jul 11
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Lifestyle: 20 Jul 11
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Business & Money: 19 Jul 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that the eurozone summit on a second Greek rescue would not produce a "spectacular" knock-out blow to the bloc's sovereign debt crisis.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 11
Russian gas giant Gazprom and Germany's number two utilities group RWE said on Thursday they are looking to form a strategic partnership to construct jointly gas and coal power plants in Europe.
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Lifestyle: 13 Jul 11
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Lifestyle: 6 Jul 11
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Society: 5 Jul 11
Greenpeace unveiled a new, German-built weapon in its campaign against environmental destruction on Monday - €23 million ship dubbed the Rainbow Warrior III.
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Business & Money: 1 Jul 11
German steel group ThyssenKrupp said on Friday that talks to create a broad joint venture with Abu Dhabi MAR had broken down, a setback for the German company's plans to reduce debt.
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National: 29 Jun 11
A former police officer in Lower Saxony was sentenced Wednesday to four-and-a-half years in prison for killing her newborn baby last year and burying it in order to avoid shocking her new boyfriend.
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Lifestyle: 29 Jun 11
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Business & Money: 28 Jun 11
Inflation in Germany stayed put at 2.3 percent in June, in part because of a drop in vegetable prices sparked by a killer bacteria, the national statistics office said Tuesday.
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National: 17 Jun 11
Police investigating a classic ‘cold case’ have arrested a family man at his north German home for the murder of a teenager more than 20 years ago – only to have him admit to being a serial killer with five young women on his conscience.
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National: 14 Jun 11
The German authorities on Tuesday said a two-year-old boy became the first child to die in an outbreak of a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria, taking the death toll to at least 37.
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Society: 10 Jun 11
Germany's latest animal sensation, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum, has made her media debut three weeks before her new tropical enclosure at Leipzig Zoo is revealed to the public.
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Lifestyle: 8 Jun 11
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National: 7 Jun 11
After mistakenly blaming Spanish cucumbers and organic sprouts for a deadly E. coli outbreak, criticism of the German authorities is mounting. The Local looks at who’s handling the health crisis.
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Society: 7 Jun 11
The death toll from an outbreak of E. coli bacteria poisoning centred on northern Germany rose to 24 after two women, aged 88 and 74, died in Lower Saxony, authorities said on Tuesday.
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National: 7 Jun 11
Terrific thunderstorms late on Monday left emergency services overstretched in parts of Germany, as phone calls flooded fire departments. Hamburg was especially hard hit.
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National: 7 Jun 11
Officials insisted Tuesday morning that the bean sprouts from a Lower Saxony farm are still chief suspects in the deadly E. coli outbreak, despite the first batch of laboratory tests turning up negative.
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National: 6 Jun 11
Germany will maintain a health warnings for sprouts as well as tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers despite initial negative tests for deadly E. coli bacteria, Minister Ilse Aigner said Monday.
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National: 5 Jun 11
Bean sprouts have emerged as the new chief suspect in the hunt for the cause of the deadly E. coli bacteria outbreak, with health authorities issuing a fresh warning on Sunday.
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National: 4 Jun 11
The United States is inspecting all imports of cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes from Germany and Spain, officials said Friday, as the outbreak spread to 12 countries.
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National: 3 Jun 11
The E. coli outbreak that has killed at least 18 people appears to be stabilising, a senior German doctor said on Friday, as police investigated two food distributors and a restaurant owner in Hamburg.
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National: 1 Jun 11
The number of E. coli cases has risen dramatically in northern Germany, authorities announced Wednesday, with at least 180 new cases emerging in the past 24 hours in Hamburg and Lower Saxony alone.
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National: 29 May 11
Germany warned Sunday that the source of an outbreak of bacteria poisoning blamed for 10 deaths and hundreds of people falling ill, some in other countries, has yet to be pinpointed.
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National: 28 May 11
Authorities are struggling to determine the source of a deadly strain of bacteria in Germany that has already claimed nine victims.
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Business & Money: 27 May 11
Farmers are threatening to sue German health authority the Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Consumer Ministry for damages over warnings about eating vegetables made to the public in the wake of the E. coli bacteria outbreak.
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Society: 27 May 11
Casting for the 2012 German Farm Girls Calendar kicked off Friday in Hamburg. But this is no typical beauty contest, as candidates must be able to drive a tractor or milk a cow – and look good doing it.
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Business & Money: 27 May 11
Germany’s seven oldest atomic reactors are likely to be switched off permanently after federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen struck an agreement with state counterparts for a permanent shutdown.
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National: 26 May 11
Cucumbers from Spain have been identified as a source of the deadly E. coli outbreak gripping Germany, health officials announced Thursday.
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