May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Bielefeld":
Society: 16 May 12
A teenager who killed an old woman by stabbing her 40 times with a knife was wearing a terrifying horror-film style rubber mask during the attack – and then hid it before calling the emergency services, German police say.
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Science & Technology: 3 May 12
Can you put a robot in the dock? Not yet, but we need to think about it – as artificially intelligent robots step from fantasy into daily life, legal and ethical questions emerge which require answers, says one German legal professor.
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Lifestyle: 25 Apr 12
This Week's Highlights: A long night of music in Munich, an art party for kids in Frankfurt, and it's Gallery Weekend in Berlin!
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National: 22 Apr 12
Who has the biggest, most impressive beard? A record 163 bearded beauties took part in the International German Beard Championships over the weekend.
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National: 14 Apr 12
German producers, distributors and companies that made and tested eggs containing unacceptable levels of the cancer-causing element PCB could face hefty fines, it emerged Saturday.
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Society: 19 Mar 12
Almost a third of German babies born in 2010 were delivered by Caesarean section – twice as many as 20 years ago and more than twice the World Health Organisation says is generally necessary.
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National: 17 Mar 12
Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, sentenced to five years in a German prison last year in one of the last major trials of its kind, has died at the age of 91, police confirmed on Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 1 Mar 12
This Week's Highlights: An art party in Frankfurt, a music parade in Hamburg, and Jewish cinema in Munich.
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Society: 29 Dec 11
German parents kept it short and sweet when picking a name for their new bundle of joy. The most popular baby names in 2011 were Mia for girls and Ben for boys.
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Lifestyle: 8 Dec 11
This Week's Highlights: Choirs sing Bach in Leipzig, a rock opera in Frankfurt and a ballet rendition of "A Christmas Carol" in Dresden.
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Society: 28 Nov 11
Police called to an abandoned car in the German city of Bielefeld feared the worst when they found the motor running and the keys still in the ignition – but later discovered it had been left there by a couple in the middle of a huge fight.
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Society: 28 Nov 11
The rise of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) has focused attention on Germany's neo-Nazi scene, which experts say includes violent militants with professional weapons training. Ben Knight reports.
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Society: 23 Nov 11
A new study shows roughly half of all physically disabled women in Germany have been sexually abused during their youth. Women are also subjected to widespread physical abuse, according to the study.
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National: 10 Nov 11
British soldiers stationed across Germany are preparing to leave in as soon as a few months, after the UK Ministry of Defence on Thursday released details of its mass withdrawal of forces from the country.
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Society: 9 Sep 11
An unusually strong earthquake rocked western Germany on Thursday evening, causing alarm but no damages. The quake was especially noticeable around the epicentre near the Lower Rhine region but was also felt through the Ruhr Valley.
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National: 6 Jun 11
Holidaymakers face unusual transport chaos in Germany this summer, with the ADAC car club forecasting a sharp rise in traffic jams, while there have been early signs that overheating on trains may once again become a problem.
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National: 30 Mar 11
A Bielefeld man faced criminal charges in a court on Wednesday for violently castrating his 17-year-old daughter’s much older boyfriend. He could be jailed for at least three years.
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Society: 29 Dec 10
Leon and Mia have emerged as the favoured names for boys and girls born in Germany in 2010 – the second year in a row they have topped the chart.
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Business & Money: 3 Dec 10
Hostility towards minorities and the poor has increased significantly among Germany's middle and upper classes, a development likely stemming from the global economic crisis, according to a new study.
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Science & Technology: 18 Nov 10
Google Street View, which has sparked a lengthy and heated debate in privacy-conscious Germany, went online overnight.
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National: 13 Nov 10
Deutsche Bahn is to extend its bus services, offering more trips at lower prices than paid for the same routes on trains, according to business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
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National: 11 Nov 10
A judge in North Rhine-Westphalia has stopped imposing penalties on people caught driving too fast, saying speed traps are often unjustified and simply used by municipalities to fill empty coffers.
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National: 8 Nov 10
A fugitive 22-year-old believed to have stabbed another man to death at a Frankfurt centre for Jehovah’s Witnesses at the weekend has been killed by a train, police said on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 10
Google presented Germany a foretaste of its controversial Street View navigation programme on Tuesday, featuring six national landmarks, 10 Bundesliga football stadiums and a few streets in the country's southern Allgäu region.
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Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
Google on Thursday revealed some 245,000 buildings were registered for Street View’s opt-out scheme in Germany, saying the figure did not correspond with the widespread controversy over the online navigation service.
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National: 20 Oct 10
A day after UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced the early withdrawal of all British forces from Germany, communities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony on Wednesday tried to assess the potentially devastating impact.
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National: 17 Oct 10
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is calling upon European authorities to stop German local governments limiting where it can build its superstores.
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Science & Technology: 15 Oct 10
Time is almost up for German residents to opt out of having their homes or businesses shown on Google's controversial Street View service. The deadline is midnight on Friday for people living in the 20 cities set to go online later this year.
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National: 29 Aug 10
German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn on Sunday said it had paid €2.7 million in compensation to 23,000 passengers who suffered sweltering heat onboard high-speed trains with faulty air conditioning units.
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Science & Technology: 17 Aug 10
German Consumer Affairs Minister Ilse Aigner on Tuesday called on Google to improve the options for the country's citizens to opt out from having their homes featured on the internet giant’s online “Street View” program.
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Science & Technology: 12 Aug 10
As a growing number of German politicians said they would forbid Google from showing their homes on the internet giant's “Street View” service, the government on Thursday announced plans for a law to protect citizens' privacy on the web.
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Science & Technology: 11 Aug 10
Internet giant Google’s plan to introduce its ''Street View'' to Germany has sparked a groundswell of debate about privacy, with one senior conservative politician complaining on Wednesday that the service would help burglars.
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Sport: 2 Aug 10
Germany’s under-20 women’s football team took home the FIFA World Cup on Sunday for the second time after a 2:0 victory over Nigeria in Bielefeld that completed an undefeated tournament.
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National: 26 Jul 10
They came from all over Germany and from as far as Australia, Bosnia and China, each pursuing their own adventure. Fourteen young Germans and seven foreigners died in the hellish crush at the Love Parade in Duisburg on July 24.
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National: 21 Jul 10
Germany's national rail operator Deutsche Bahn announced Wednesday that it would compensate victims of a horrific air-conditioning failure on a high-speed train during one of the hottest days of the year with €500 for their suffering.
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National: 12 Jul 10
Federal police are investigating rail operator Deutsche Bahn for a weekend incident in which the failure of air-conditioning sent temperatures on a train soaring to 50 degrees Celsius and left nine people in the hospital.
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National: 11 Jul 10
Several passengers on an Intercity Express train on the Hannover-Cologne route collapsed on Saturday after temperatures inside the cars reportedly surpassed 50 degrees Celsius.
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National: 31 May 10
Four people are dead after a small airplane crashed into a forest near Bielefeld in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police there reported on Monday.
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Society: 20 Apr 10
An 83-year-old man who stormed a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation with a machine gun in the city of Bielefeld was sentenced to 11 years prison on Tuesday for 39 counts of attempted murder.
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Society: 14 Apr 10
Hamburg is Germany’s highest-earning city with an average net income of €23,366 a year, a survey published Wednesday found.
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Lifestyle: 6 Apr 10
Germany might be a car-crazy country, but it can also be a prohibitively expensive place to have your own ride. Rhea Wessel reports on the growing interest in car-sharing services.
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Society: 6 Mar 10
Dogged winter weather caused a slew of road accidents across Germany overnight and clogged several motorways with traffic jams.
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Society: 21 Jan 10
Official figures on Thursday showed Germany's population shrank for the seventh year in a row in 2009, defying Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid to boost the country's birth rate.
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Sport: 2 Dec 09
Hertha Berlin's general manager Michael Preetz has admitted the Bundesliga's capital club is facing its biggest crisis of the last 12 years as they battle to stay afloat.
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Society: 23 Nov 09
A Düsseldorf antique car dealer working on behalf of a Russian billionaire told The Local on Monday he has located a Mercedes limousine belonging to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler after a painstaking two-month search.
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Society: 16 Sep 09
A new study by Men’s Health magazine shows that the key to a long-lasting marriage in Germany could simply lie in the town in which couples live.
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National: 31 Aug 09
The VDV alliance of German transportation providers on Monday encouraged cities to take a stronger hand against public transport fare dodgers.
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Society: 22 Aug 09
Around 100 university professors across the country are under investigation for taking bribes in return for ‘helping’ students get doctorates, it has emerged.
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Society: 13 Aug 09
A woman in Bielefeld has been banned from all city police stations after she took revenge on the department for not returning her romantic interest, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Society: 5 Aug 09
One policeman was injured after the intoxicated driver of a motorised wheelchair led officers on a high-speed chase through Bielefeld on Tuesday night.
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Society: 31 Jul 09
An 82-year-old man who entered a meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses armed with a submachine gun, three magazines, a Samurai sword and a knife has been arrested, Bielefeld police reported on Friday.
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National: 23 May 09
Vfl Wolfsburg won their first ever German league title after a 5-1 drubbing of beaten UEFA Cup finalists Werder Bremen on the last day of the season on Saturday.
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Sport: 14 May 09
Stuttgart remains in the Bundesliga title race after Romanian striker Ciprian Marica scored the winner in a 2-1 win at Schalke to stay two points behind leaders Wolfsburg with two games left on Wednesday night.
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Sport: 13 May 09
Wolfsburg's strikers Edin Dzeko and Grafite both netted in the German league leader's 3-0 win over Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday while title rivals Hertha Berlin and Bayern Munich also picked up wins.
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Sport: 27 Apr 09
Relegation-threatened Energie Cottbus threw the Bundesliga title race wide open on Sunday when the strugglers inflicted a shock 2-0 defeat on league leaders Wolfsburg.
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Sport: 17 Apr 09
Bayern Munich welcome back Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger for Saturday's Bundesliga clash at Bielefeld as they look to put their Champions League heartbreak behind them and chase league leaders Wolfsburg.
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Sport: 16 Apr 09
Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery on Thursday fuelled further speculation over a switch to Barcelona after saying he understands why compatriot Thierry Henry plies his trade for the Spanish giants.
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Sport: 15 Mar 09
Hot-shot striker Andrei Voronin scored his eighth goal in six games to keep Hertha Berlin four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday and seal their 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen.
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Society: 28 Feb 09
A new exhibition at Nazi concentration camp Ravensbrück near Berlin details the fate of women forced to work as sex slaves for fellow prisoners during World War II.
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Sport: 27 Feb 09
Luca Toni insists Bayern Munich must use the same passion they showed in their Champions League hammering of Sporting Lisbon in midweek to get their Bundesliga campaign back on track in Bremen on Sunday.
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Sport: 20 Feb 09
Hoffenheim travel to Stuttgart on Saturday with coach Ralf Rangnick fearing stardom has turned his players' heads after they were dumped from the Bundesliga summit.
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Sport: 13 Feb 09
Bayern Munich coach Jürgen Klinsmann insists his side will give Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim no peace until they are back at the top of the table - starting this weekend.
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Sport: 4 Dec 08
The title credentials of surprise German league leaders Hoffenheim will face their sternest examination yet on Friday when the village side travel to the home of reigning champions Bayern Munich.
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Sport: 21 Nov 08
Defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich will take on bottom side Energie Cottbus on Saturday with midfield star Franck Ribery despite his injury scare with France.
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National: 16 Nov 08
A retrospective exhibition of Yoko Ono’s art work in Bielefeld has smashed organisers’ expectations and attracted more than 25,000 visitors in two and a half months.
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National: 9 Nov 08
Police took DNA samples from 5,000 elderly men in the town of Weiskirchen near the French border this week in a bid to nab an old serial killer who has been writing the cops anonymous letters, AFP's Arnaud Bouvier reports.
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National: 8 Nov 08
Having taken the Bundesliga by storm so far this season, league leader Hoffenheim travels to Hertha Berlin on Sunday with Nigeria striker Chinedu Obasi claiming his side can beat anyone.
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Sport: 2 Nov 08
Bayern Munich won against Arminia Bielefeld to put the German giants third, while Hoffenheim regained the top Bundesliga spot on Saturday.
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Sport: 18 Oct 08
Germany striker Miroslav Klose struck just four minutes from time to give defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich a 1-0 win over Karlsruhe on Saturday - their first victory in four league games.
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Sport: 18 Oct 08
Bayern Munich coach Jürgen Klinsmann reckons the defending Bundesliga champions will recover from their worst start to the season in 31 years – and predicts victory over Karlsruhe on Saturday.
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Society: 17 Oct 08
Police in the German state of Saarland are planning a mass DNA test in hopes of apprehending a man thought to be Germany’s oldest serial killer some four decades after he killed six women.
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Sport: 26 Sep 08
After three months out with injury, Bayern Munich's French star Franck Ribery wants to reignite his team's season at Hannover on Saturday before next Tuesday's Champions League clash with Lyon.
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Sport: 20 Sep 08
Bayern Munich coach Jürgen Klinsmann could only rue his side's 'black' Saturday as Werder Bremen routed the defending Bundesliga champions 5-2 in Munich.
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Society: 11 Sep 08
Immigrant youth are not more violent than their German peers, according to a new study by the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld.
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Sport: 18 Aug 08
Stuttgart, bidding to dislodge last season's Bundesliga winners Bayern Munich, got their campaign off to a solid start by winning 3-1 away at promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach.
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Sport: 15 Aug 08
All eyes will be on Munich's Allianz Arena when defending champions Bayern Munich kick off the new Bundesliga season on Friday against Hamburg under the gaze of new coach Jürgen Klinsmann.
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Sport: 8 Jun 08
The sleepy Austrian town of Klagenfurt was deafened by football chants and blaring music on Sunday as German and Polish fans in full supporter attire invaded the city centre ahead
of their countries' first Euro 2008 match.
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Sport: 11 May 08
Duisburg and Hansa Rostock were relegated from the Bundesliga on Saturday while champions Bayern are on the verge of the record for the least amount of league goals conceded in a season.
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Sport: 7 May 08
A goal by Gerald Asamoah launched Schalke 04's 3-0 win over VfL Bochum on Tuesday to put the Royal Blues second in the Bundesliga and seal their Champions League berth next season.
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Sport: 2 May 08
After disappointingly being tossed out the UEFA Cup on Thursday, FC Bayern Munich could find some consolation this weekend by being crowned Bundesliga champions.
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Sport: 3 Apr 08
Czech international and Hamburg midfielder David Jarolim has been slapped with a four-match ban by Bundesliga disciplinary chiefs after he was ruled to have squeezed an opponent's genitals.
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Sport: 24 Mar 08
Bayer Leverkusen boss Rudi Völler admitted Bayern Munich deserve to be crowned German champions after his team was beaten 2-1 by the league leaders at the Allianz Arena.
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Sport: 1 Mar 08
Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery reinforced concerns that the German football giants rely too much on the French midfielder by setting up the only goal in Saturday's 1-0 win at Schalke 04.
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Society: 24 Jan 08
Wave of reports of violent crimes committed by young people with immigrant backgrounds brings debate on immigration to forefront.
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