May 22, 2012
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Society: 18 May 12
Some sex abusers should continue to work for the Catholic church, a bishop said on Thursday, while a cardinal argued for some homosexual relationships to be treated like heterosexual ones.
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National: 17 May 12
The great-great-grandson of the last German Kaiser sold one of the world’s biggest diamonds, the Beau Sancy for nearly $10 million, more than three times the expected auction price.
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National: 15 May 12
The British Military Train ferried soldiers between Berlin and West Germany throughout the Cold War. It took to the rails for one last time last weekend, laden with former regulars and their memories. James Gheerbrant was on board.
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Society: 12 May 12
A row exposing fears of a Murdoch-style over-influential tabloid press blew up in Germany at the weekend when reporters from one paper rejected a prestigious prize – because they were set to share it with the populist Bild newspaper.
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National: 9 May 12
A 64-year-old man was killed and four people left injured after a driver lost control of his car and ploughed into a group of people waiting at a metro stop on Tuesday evening in Hannover, Lower Saxony, police announced.
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Science & Technology: 6 May 12
On a thundery night on May 6, 1937, the era of commercial airship travel came to a fiery end when the German hydrogen-filled Hindenburg burst into flames, killing 36 and shocking the world with images of the blazing dirigible.
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Business & Money: 26 Apr 12
A right-wing Swiss politician left her audience gobsmacked when she denounced German immigrants who were coming to Switzerland and “stealing our jobs”.
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National: 25 Apr 12
Google launched a new online social network on Wednesday to link former German neo-Nazis with former radical Islamists in Indonesia - and their victims - to find ways to combat extremism.
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National: 25 Apr 12
Germany's Jewish community on Wednesday welcomed a landmark decision to republish Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" for the first time since World War II, in an annotated edition.
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Politics: 23 Apr 12
A leading member of the German Pirate Party has apologised for comparing the rise of the movement with that of the Nazi party in the 1930s.
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National: 21 Apr 12
German and French plans to reclaim control of their borders have been condemned by German politicians as "right-wing populist rhetoric" ahead of Sunday's French Presidential elections
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Lifestyle: 19 Apr 12
This Week's Highlights: Museum night in Frankfurt, Brian Blade in Munich, and burlesque in Berlin.
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National: 16 Apr 12
German police hunting organisers of an illegal dog fighting den set up in the cellar of a house have issued an international arrest warrant after the property owner disappeared.
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Politics: 11 Apr 12
Iran has stopped oil imports to Germany and reduced its consumption of EU products as the European Union moves towards a total embargo on Iranian oil, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
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Education: 11 Apr 12
Three German students are offering to help female students improve their grades – by inviting them out of the library and into bed.
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National: 8 Apr 12
German writer and Nobel laureate Günter Grass has effectively been banned from Israel after a poem he published accused the country of endangering world peace sparked a global firestorm of criticism and counter-criticism.
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Society: 31 Mar 12
Geriatric German gymnast Johanna Quaas, 86, wowed spectators with impressive floor and parallel bar performances during a break in the 2012 Cottbus Challenger Cup gymnastic competition.
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Lifestyle: 29 Mar 12
This Week's Highlights: Dinner on a Baltic beach, a spring festival in Berlin, and French singer SoKo steps up to the mic in Cologne.
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Society: 25 Mar 12
Several members of the Hells Angels biker gang in Berlin attacked an Italian pizza baker and his son with batons and baseball bats early Sunday morning, after chasing down the victims' car.
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Lifestyle: 22 Mar 12
This Week's Highlights: English theatre in Munich, a “Dream House” in Berlin, and “the world's most glamorous opera star sings in Hamburg.
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National: 21 Mar 12
Dog owners in Germany are bracing themselves for the introduction of a license which would require passing written and practical tests and could cost hundreds of euros.
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National: 21 Mar 12
A German literature festival organised a global reading on Tuesday in honour of imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, supported by luminaries including Salman Rushdie and Doris Lessing.
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Politics: 18 Mar 12
Activist pastor Joachim Gauck took office as German president on Monday morning after being elected by an overwhelming majority, marking the first time someone from the former communist east acts as head of state.
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Lifestyle: 15 Mar 12
This Week's Highlights: LA art in Berlin, Feist in Frankfurt, and Europe's biggest book fair begins in Leipzig.
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Business & Money: 13 Mar 12
German carmakers are swimming in money – selling more vehicles and earning more than ever before, filling their coffers ahead of what managers are warning could be a difficult year.
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Society: 13 Mar 12
German football legend Timo Konietzka has died – with the help of the Swiss euthanasia association Exit – after writing his own death notice, drinking a beer and seeing his grandchildren for a last time.
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Lifestyle: 12 Mar 12
Germany’s women are in the spotlight this week - having recently dealt with the sexy men, this edition of The Local List features a selection of the country’s most delectable ladies.
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Politics: 11 Mar 12
Ex-President Christian Wulff has gone on a temporary monastic retreat, according to the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Allegations of corruption in the past months have taken their toll, Wulff’s colleagues said.
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National: 11 Mar 12
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has pledged €265 million in aid to Yemen during a visit to the impoverished Arabian peninsula country, according to the state-run Saba news agency.
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Business & Money: 6 Mar 12
Several members of the finance department at high-end car-maker Porsche are being charged with credit fraud, Stuttgart state prosecutors announced on Tuesday.
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Society: 5 Mar 12
The world record for the most magicians in a magic show was broken on Sunday night, when 106 sorcerers appeared in a gala in the southern German town of Tübingen.
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Science & Technology: 5 Mar 12
Internet players are set to make a big splash at the world's biggest IT fair opening in Germany Tuesday, a development likely to widen the event's appeal from a traditional devotion to pure technology.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 12
German car giant Audi posted record profits, the company reported on Thursday after turnover soared by over 68 percent in 2011.
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Politics: 28 Feb 12
German reluctance to boost funds to prevent debt contagion pushed the EU on Tuesday into cancelling eurozone talks on the matter despite pressure from G20 ministers.
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Business & Money: 24 Feb 12
Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car maker, said on Friday it more than doubled net profit last year as worldwide sales topped the eight-billion mark for the first time.
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Education: 22 Feb 12
Innovative Swedish software can help you expand your German vocabulary rapidly, using words and images.
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National: 22 Feb 12
Megaupload.com boss Kim Dotcom was freed on bail in a surprise move Wednesday, after a New Zealand judge dismissed fears he would flee the country to escape US online piracy charges.
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National: 16 Feb 12
Two cats previously living with a neo-Nazi terror cell suspected of murdering people across Germany are at the centre of a row over who should pay for their keep.
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Lifestyle: 15 Feb 12
The Local’s Karneval guide separates Germany’s jesters from its fools.
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National: 12 Feb 12
A sci-fi black comedy about Nazis from the moon invading Planet Earth is one of the hottest tickets at the Berlin film festival, which is better known for its gritty political fare.
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National: 10 Feb 12
A Turkish newspaper and the Foreigners’ Advisory Council in the German state of Hesse have expressed outrage at a televised Karneval monologue that made several jokes at the expense of Turkish Germans.
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Society: 9 Feb 12
Diane Kruger stars as Marie Antoinette in "Farewell My Queen," a lush costume drama set on the eve of the French Revolution that will open the 62nd Berlin film festival on Thursday.
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Society: 6 Feb 12
One of Germany’s most famous opera houses, Dresden’s Semperoper, gave teenagers front row seats to the premiere of its new production of Alban Berg’s “Lulu” – which centres on a murderous prostitute.
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Politics: 3 Feb 12
Most Germans now want President Christian Wulff to resign, as the flow of allegations over his behaviour and investigations into his relationships with businesses continues to damage his credibility.
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Sport: 31 Jan 12
A doctor considered well connected to several German Olympians is being investigated on suspicion of performing blood doping transfusions for nearly 30 elite athletes.
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Politics: 31 Jan 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders attempted to solve Europe’s debt crisis on Monday evening with a German-driven treaty meant to end deficits. But a suggestion to police the Greek budget raised hackles.
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Society: 26 Jan 12
Germany's former ice-skating Olympic champion Katarina Witt has made peace with British skier Chemmy Alcott after making her cry by calling her a “pretty big woman” on a UK television show.
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Society: 25 Jan 12
Los Angeles prosecutors have announced 63 more charges against a German man accused over a four-day arson spree which gripped Hollywood over the year-end holidays.
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Politics: 24 Jan 12
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany late on Monday called on Tehran to immediately suspend its nuclear activities after the EU slapped an embargo on Iran's oil exports as part of tough new sanctions.
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Society: 23 Jan 12
German supermodel Heidi Klum has separated from British singer Seal after seven years of marriage, the couple confirmed Sunday.
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Politics: 21 Jan 12
Germany's foreign minister assured Americans Friday that Europe left socialism behind two decades ago, despite statements to the contrary by Republicans on the US presidential campaign trail.
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National: 20 Jan 12
While the fashion world's elite strut their stuff in Berlin Fashion Week, some who give the German capital its reputation for edgy design are struggling. One designer told Jessica Ware the fashion scene was “massively underfunded”.
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National: 20 Jan 12
The North Korean ambassador to Germany was caught poaching fish in a Berlin river this week – but waved away police who found him, and carried on with a grin, citing diplomatic immunity.
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Politics: 19 Jan 12
German's UN envoy has accused Russia of preventing the UN Security Council from taking decisive action over the deadly crackdown on anti regime protests in Syria.
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Business & Money: 17 Jan 12
Volkswagen and BMW issued recalls on half a million cars this week – with VW warning that fuel lines in their most modern diesel engines can leak, and BMW saying their Minis could catch fire due to electrical problems.
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Business & Money: 16 Jan 12
New rules being planned by the European Union which would limit the use of the label “Made in Germany” could cause “immense damage”, Germany’s industry lobby group warned on Monday.
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National: 16 Jan 12
Greece and Europe belong together, Germany's foreign minister said Sunday after meeting the debt-crippled country's leaders ahead of a week of tough talks for Athens with its creditors.
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Society: 12 Jan 12
While the recently-discovered Neo-Nazi murders dominated the German media for weeks, the drip, drip, drip of xenophobic graffiti rarely gets much attention. AFP’s Deborah Cole meets a woman tackling it personally.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 12
Ratings agency Fitch offered a ray of light for the eurozone Tuesday as German Chancellor Angela Merkel met IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Greece's struggle to cut its debt, amid tentative signs of progress.
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Politics: 9 Jan 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was not considering who might replace embattled President Christian Wulff, despite public offers from opposition politicians to work together to find a non-partisan successor.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 12
The leaders of Germany and France put aside their differences on a controversial tax of financial market transactions and promised to speed up various measures to ease the eurozone crisis, as the euro flirted with new market lows Monday.
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Sport: 7 Jan 12
The vice president of the International Skating Union (ISU) has denied telling German speed skater Claudia Pechstein that he was sorry for her two-year suspension from competition that forced her to miss the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Society: 5 Jan 12
A survey published Thursday found that Germans have been growing more and more addicted to the box. In 2011, Teutonic couch potatoes buckled down to break the previous year’s record once again.
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Business & Money: 5 Jan 12
Luxury German carmaker Audi said Thursday that 2011 sales in fast-growing China had outstripped its home market for the first time, adding it expected further acceleration in the coming years.
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National: 5 Jan 12
A German man launched a "binge" of over 50 arson attacks in southern California over the New Year holiday weekend, fired up by anti-American "hatred" fueled by his mother's fight against deportation to Germany, prosecutors have said.
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Politics: 4 Jan 12
German President Christian Wulff said Wednesday he will submit to a TV interview on the spiralling loan scandal threatening to engulf him. The interview will be aired the same evening.
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Society: 3 Jan 12
The Berlin film festival said Monday it would award Oscar-winning US actress Meryl Streep an honorary Golden Bear next month in recognition of her decades-long career.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 11
Despite doom and gloom in many business sectors, German car manufacturers think 2012 could be a banner year, especially in the United States.
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National: 25 Dec 11
Johannes Heesters, a controversial operetta singer who became famous in Nazi Germany and who was considered one of the world's oldest performing artists, died on Saturday aged 108, his agency said.
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National: 24 Dec 11
In his annual Christmas address, to be aired Sunday evening, German President Christian Wulff did not mention the loan scandal that has dogged him throughout December, instead highlighting racism and political extremism.
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Lifestyle: 22 Dec 11
The highlights over the holidays: Shadow puppets in Hamburg, Bonnie and Clyde in Berlin, and Belarus ballerinas fluff their feathers in Munich.
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Society: 22 Dec 11
Motherhood in the Fatherland follows mum Sabine Devins as she navigates the cultural quirks of having a baby in Germany. In the latest instalment, she discovers that the love for engineering starts early.
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National: 20 Dec 11
A US Department of State report has recommended closing the American consulate in Leipzig and reducing staff at other missions in Germany.
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Society: 16 Dec 11
The Society for the German Language (GfdS) has decreed that three of the top five most important German words of 2011 are related to the economy, settling on Stresstest as the big winner.
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Society: 16 Dec 11
Germans should brace themselves for some crass jokes at their expense this weekend, when an episode of the US cartoon 'South Park' mocking their sense of humour is broadcast for the first time in Germany.
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Lifestyle: 15 Dec 11
This Week's Highlights: Synagogue music in Berlin, horses in Frankfurt, and a French dance troupe rocks out in Munich.
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Sport: 11 Dec 11
Borussia Mönchengladbach missed the chance to go top of the German league on Saturday after a shock defeat at strugglers Augsburg while Bremen got back in the title race with a 4-1 win over Wolfsburg.
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Business & Money: 7 Dec 11
Motorists in Germany have never shelled out so much to fill up their cars, as fuel costs reached an all-time high in 2011, according to drivers' association ADAC.
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Business & Money: 2 Dec 11
Though a new survey of perceptions of corruption in countries around the world rates Germany rather well – 14th out of 183 countries – anti-graft group Transparency International says country still has much work to do.
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Business & Money: 29 Nov 11
German exports are set to crack the €1-trillion mark for the first time history this year despite turbulence hitting the global economy and the simmering eurozone debt crisis.
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National: 29 Nov 11
As Europe's sovereign debt crisis continues to simmer, Germans are wondering if they can afford to save the euro – or not to. NPR’s Berlin correspondent Eric Westervelt reports.
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Lifestyle: 23 Nov 11
Mercedes, BMW, Audi and VW – Germany is a nation of car nuts. The Local List counts down the country's most legendary rides.
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National: 21 Nov 11
The German government was embarrassed this weekend following revelations that an Iranian airline bypassed trade sanctions to acquire an aeroplane formerly used by Chancellors Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel.
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Politics: 20 Nov 11
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany’s former defence minister who resigned after being found to have plagiarised his doctoral thesis, has returned to the political stage with a scathing attack on his former colleagues.
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Business & Money: 13 Nov 11
Leading German carmakers are planning to add more workers to the payroll next year. Big firms such as Porsche, BMW and Volkswagen say that they will be hiring thousands more workers in 2012.
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Lifestyle: 10 Nov 11
This Week's Highlights: Short films in Cologne, Jewish culture in Munich, and big bubbles in Berlin.
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Society: 10 Nov 11
German government funding for culture is usually earmarked for non-commercial ventures – yet tens of thousands of euros have been spent supporting overseas concerts by bands such as Die Toten Hosen and Tokio Hotel.
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Sport: 7 Nov 11
Ten-man Bayern Munich went five points clear again at the top of the German league on Sunday as striker Mario Gomez scored his 20th goal of the season in a 2-1 win at bottom side Augsburg.
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Business & Money: 6 Nov 11
The leaders of Germany and Russia will inaugurate the controversial Nord Stream pipeline pumping Russian gas to Western Europe Tuesday, highlighting its strategic importance to both sides.
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Society: 6 Nov 11
Comedian Hape Kerkeling, the favourite to succeed host Thomas Gottschalk to host Germany's top television show Wetten, dass..?, told an audience of nearly 10 million on Saturday that he did not want the job.
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Society: 4 Nov 11
An episode of the original Star Trek series in which Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock dress up as Nazis to infiltrate a far-right alien regime is to be aired on public television in Germany for the first time ever Friday night.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 11
An investigation into corporate corruption allegations in Asia appears to have widened and now includes a subsidiary of German steel concern ThyssenKrupp.
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Business & Money: 27 Oct 11
German automakers Volkswagen and Daimler shrugged off fears of a looming economic downturn Thursday, insisting strong global demand would enable them to sharply increase full-year profits.
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Science & Technology: 26 Oct 11
Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable.
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Science & Technology: 25 Oct 11
Germany’s highest civil court has set out a process by which web hosts can avoid liability for libellous blog posts, in a decision which Google described as striking a blow for freedom of expression and information in the internet.
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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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Business & Money: 20 Oct 11
Prosecutors investigating corruption in Europe’s biggest consumer electronics chain have arrested five people, including a top Media Markt manager and his wife – over allegations of massive bribery.
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Lifestyle: 20 Oct 11
This Week's Highlights: A French DJ in Cologne, Tori Amos in Frankfurt, and Hungarian chamber music in a Munich museum.
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National: 19 Oct 11
Between 2005 and 2009 the German government approved the sale of huge quantities of weapons to repressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East despite clear policy guidelines, a new Amnesty International report says.
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Lifestyle: 18 Oct 11
Buttoned-down Stuttgart might appear to be an unlikely jazz mecca, but the venerable music genre is making a comeback in the southwestern German city after being popularized by American GIs after the war. Tracy Moran reports.
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