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Match-fixing ring rocks European football

Sport: 20 Nov 09
Some 200 football matches in nine European countries including at least three Champions League games may have manipulated in a huge match-fixing scandal, German prosecutors said on Friday. READ »

Football match-fixing ring uncovered

Sport: 19 Nov 09
Police arrested several people in Germany and abroad Thursday in connection to a gambling ring affecting Europe’s top football leagues. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 19 - 25

Lifestyle: 19 Nov 09
This Week's Highlights: Vikings in Frankfurt, Grimm's fairy tales in Cologne, and innovative theatre troupes take the stage in Munich. READ »

Podolski brace saves draw for Germany on emotional Enke night

Sport: 19 Nov 09
Striker Lukas Podolski saved his country for the second consecutive match with an injury-time goal to seal Germany's 2-2 draw with the Ivory Coast on an emotional night in Gelsenkirchen on Wednesday. READ »

Utilities hiking power prices

Business & Money: 18 Nov 09
Two German utilities – Vattenfall and EWE – announced on Wednesday they would dramatically raise electricity prices for their customers starting next year, blaming the higher cost of renewable energy. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 18 Nov 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Westerwelle embroiled in row over displaced Germans in WWII

Politics: 13 Nov 09
The delicate issue of ethnic Germans displaced after World War II sparked a political row on Friday, when a conservative Christian Democrat claimed Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was buying off Germany's eastern neighbours. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 12 - 18

Lifestyle: 12 Nov 09
This Week's Highlights: Botticelli comes to Frankfurt, Phoenix plays Hamburg, and Berlin hosts a British film festival. READ »

Michelin Guide gives 24 new stars to German restaurants

Society: 11 Nov 09
The world-renowned Michelin Guide awarded Germany’s top restaurants a raft of new honours on Wednesday, handing 23 establishments one star and adding a second star to another gourmet eatery. READ »

Enke hid depression for years before suicide

Sport: 11 Nov 09
Germany was in shock on Wednesday after football player Robert Enke, who was set to represent his country at the 2010 World Cup, committed suicide by throwing himself under a train after suffering years of depression. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 11 Nov 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Germany goalkeeper Enke commits suicide

Sport: 10 Nov 09
German international goalkeeper Robert Enke has been killed after he threw himself under a train at a level crossing, police said on Tuesday. READ »

Trading magic for the beauty of being ordinary

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Nov 09
Forget the magic of history and Helmut Kohl’s illusory “blossoming landscapes” – 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall eastern Germany has become a beautifully ordinary place, writes The Local’s Marc Young. READ »

Leverkusen pummels Frankfurt

Sport: 7 Nov 09
League leaders Bayer Leverkusen opened a four-point gap at the top of the Bundesliga on Friday with a 4-0 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt after scoring three goals in the first 11 minutes. READ »

East German victims lament lack of justice

National: 5 Nov 09
The collapse of the Berlin Wall rectified East Germany’s biggest crime. But as David Wroe reports, many of the communist regime’s victims are still seeking justice for other misdeeds two decades later. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 5 - 11

Lifestyle: 5 Nov 09
This Week's Highlights: Moby arrives in Cologne, Juliette Lewis sets up in Munich, and a 'Festival of Freedom' commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 4 Nov 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Obese man dies after refusing zoo X-ray

Society: 3 Nov 09
An obese man is dead after he refused to have an X-ray taken in a machine for zoo animals because he was too large for one at a Hamburg hospital, daily Bild reported on Tuesday. READ »

Audi buys stake in FC Bayern Munich

Business & Money: 31 Oct 09
Audi has all but completed negotiations with FC Bayern Munich to buy a 9.5 percent stake in the football club, according to a report in the online version of Stern magazine. READ »

Death of leading neo-Nazi set to cripple far-right

National: 30 Oct 09
One of the driving forces of neo-Nazism in Germany, Jürgen Rieger, has died after suffering a stroke, his far-right National Democratic Party announced on its website Friday morning. READ »

Government agency puts job seekers' data at risk

National: 30 Oct 09
Data protection deficiencies at the Federal Employment Agency (BA) are far more serious than previously reported, daily Frankfurter Rundschau reported on Friday. READ »

Hamburg hospital develops treatment to 'fish out' cancer cells

Science & Technology: 29 Oct 09
Researchers at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf won a national contest on Thursday to further develop their so-called “nano-fishing” cancer treatment, a method which plucks cancer cells from a patient’s bloodstream. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 29 - November 4

Lifestyle: 29 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: Bebel Gilberto sambas into Cologne, Lily Allen prances through Hamburg, and Anne Frank's diary goes opera in Munich. READ »

Greenpeace finds pesticides in a quarter of tested cooking spices

National: 29 Oct 09
A new study by Greenpeace discovered pesticides in more than a quarter of all conventional dried cooking spices sold in Germany, the organisation announced on Thursday in Hamburg. READ »

Angela Merkel: 'Madame Non' or world's most powerful woman?

Politics: 28 Oct 09
"Madame Non" or world's most powerful woman? Angela Merkel starts her second term at the helm of Europe's largest country on Wednesday. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 28 Oct 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Stuttgart coach on thin ice after defeat

Sport: 28 Oct 09
VfB Stuttgart coach Markus Babbel's position is on thin ice after the Bundesliga club suffered a 1-0 shock defeat on Tuesday in the third round of the German Cup at second division Greuther Fürth. READ »

Doubts dog Oettinger appointment to Europe

Politics: 26 Oct 09
Stefan Mappus on Monday was chosen to become the new premier of Baden-Württemberg, as the controversy over his predecessor Günther Oettinger’s surprise appointment as Germany’s new EU commissioner deepened. READ »

EU probes German aid to HSH Nordbank

Business & Money: 23 Oct 09
The EU on Friday announced it will investigate €3.0 billion in state aid given by German authorities to HSH Nordbank, citing "doubts" over their compatibility with European competition rules. READ »

Israel wants Berlin to finance two new warships

Business & Money: 23 Oct 09
Israel is hoping to order two modern German-made warships without paying for them, daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday. READ »

Bundesliga Preview: Leverkusen look to stay top without Rolfes

Sport: 23 Oct 09
Bundesliga-leaders Bayer Leverkusen must make do without injured captain Simon Rolfes on Friday at home to Borussia Dortmund, but coach Jupp Heynckes has every faith in his side. READ »

High court backs equal rights for gay marriages

National: 22 Oct 09
Germany’s high court strengthened the rights of gay couples on Thursday, ruling that government employees with registered civil unions are entitled to the same pension plans as married couples. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 22 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: A Little Mermaid ballet in Hamburg, Super 8 films in Frankfurt, and Berlin hosts an art show in a historic bathhouse. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 21 Oct 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Coalition infuriates Greens with nuclear power compromise

Politics: 18 Oct 09
The negotiating government coalition partners seem to have agreed on the outlines of a future energy policy – with nuclear power as a key component to bridge the time until renewable sources can supply what is needed. READ »

Irish filmmaker stabbed by masked teens in Berlin

National: 16 Oct 09
A 57-year-old Irish filmmaker was stabbed in an attempted robbery by three masked teenagers during an evening stroll in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, police confirmed to The Local on Friday. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 15 - 21

Lifestyle: 15 Oct 09
This week's highlights: After 60 years a museum reopens in Berlin, Nick Cave reads from his new novel in Hamburg, and Frankfurt holds its annual book fair. READ »

Intelligence agency warns of Iranian spies

National: 15 Oct 09
Germany’s domestic intelligence service on Thursday warned those critical of Iran's regime to be aware of threats and intimidation from the country’s secret police. READ »

Ballack disappointed in booing fans after Finland draw

Sport: 15 Oct 09
Captain Michael Ballack slammed Germany's fans after his side endured a barrage of boos during their disappointing 1-1 draw with Finland on Wednesday evening. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 14 Oct 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Multiple witnesses spot UFO in northern Germany

Science & Technology: 14 Oct 09
Police and fire departments in northern Germany received dozens of phone calls on Tuesday evening from people claiming they saw a mysterious burning orb in the night sky. READ »

Löw insists on victory over Finland in final World Cup qualifier

Sport: 14 Oct 09
Coach Joachim Löw has insisted Germany must finish their World Cup qualification campaign in Hamburg on Wednesday night with a victory over Finland with places at South Africa 2010 still up for grabs. READ »

Butt-flashing boozer dragged 200 metres while stuck to train

Society: 12 Oct 09
A drunk young man was dragged 200 metres after pressing his bare buttocks to a departing train window to insult a ticket inspector who had just thrown him off, police reported on Monday. READ »

Germany beat Russia to book World Cup berth

Sport: 10 Oct 09
Miroslav Klose booked Germany's place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with a first-half goal for a 1-0 win over Russia in Moscow on Saturday. READ »

Two more Germans turn up in terror videos

National: 10 Oct 09
Anti-terrorism authorities have identified two further German citizens in Islamist videos calling for holy war, officials confirmed Saturday. READ »

Munich remains Germany’s economic powerhouse

Business & Money: 9 Oct 09
Munich has been crowned Germany's most economically successful city for the sixth year in a row, according to a new study published in weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche on Friday. READ »

Pilots report surge in laser pointer attacks during landings

National: 9 Oct 09
Pilots have been reporting an increasing number of potentially deadly attacks on commercial jets with laser pointers during night landings at major German airports. READ »

National football team 'ready to beat Russia' on Saturday

Sport: 9 Oct 09
National team member Thomas Hitzlsperger says Germany is determined to close down Russian play-maker Andrei Arshavin to win Saturday’s game in Moscow, which would secure their spot at the 2010 World Cup. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 8 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: Mucha in Munich, an onion festival in Weimar, and a candlelit commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 7 Oct 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Ballack dismisses worries over Russian artificial pitch

Sport: 6 Oct 09
Germany captain Michael Ballack on Tuesday dismissed concerns over the artificial pitch for the key World Cup showdown with Russia, saying his team is well-prepared to adapt to the tricky surface. READ »

Fashion magazine 'Brigitte' goes model-free

National: 5 Oct 09
Brigitte, one of Germany’s most popular glossy women’s magazines, announced on Monday that it will no longer use models in photo spreads in response to changing ideas about beauty. READ »

Hertha sign Funkel as new coach

Sport: 3 Oct 09
The Bundesliga's bottom side Hertha Berlin on Saturday confirmed Friedhelm Funkel as their new coach following the sacking of Swiss Lucien Favre. READ »

Bionade looks to world domination with help from Dr. Oetker

Business & Money: 2 Oct 09
The hip German softdrink Bionade has been bought out by the food giant Dr. Oetker in order to facilitate a major international expansion of the popular brand. READ »

Suspicious suitcase causes bomb scare at Berlin’s central station

National: 2 Oct 09
Police closed part of Berlin’s central train station on Friday after they discovered a suspicious piece of luggage they thought was a bomb. READ »

Bundesliga preview: Battered Hertha look to rebuild

Sport: 2 Oct 09
Hertha Berlin's caretaker coach Karsten Heine is insisting on a back-to-basics policy as he prepares his side for the unenviable task of facing league-leaders Hamburg in Sunday's showdown. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 1 - 7

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: A celebration of TV towers in Frankfurt, a film festival in Hamburg, and giants march through Berlin in celebration of Germany's reunification. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 30 Sep 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Ballack says national team focused on beating Russia in qualifier

Sport: 30 Sep 09
Germany captain Michael Ballack insists his team will give everything they have to beat Russia in Moscow on October 10 and earn themselves an automatic place at the 2010 World Cup. READ »

Hertha reportedly considering hiring Matthäus as coach

Sport: 29 Sep 09
Former Germany captain Lothar Matthäus has been linked to the vacant coaching role at the Bundesliga's bottom club Hertha Berlin, which sacked coach Lucien Favre on Monday evening. READ »

Germany's great piano makers the latest victims of downturn

National: 27 Sep 09
Germany's prestigious piano makers have emerged as the latest industry to be battered by the global recession as worldwide sales of the instrument plummet. READ »

German housing prices fall for the first time in five years

Business & Money: 26 Sep 09
The average price of a German home fell in 2008 for the first time in five years, a housing industry study has found. READ »

Emden shipyard workers protest closure plans

Business & Money: 25 Sep 09
Some 2,000 people demonstrated at the traditional northern German seaport of Emden on Friday against the possible closure of its shipyard. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 24-30

Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
This Week's Highlights: Tori Amos plays Munich, Arto Lindsay leads a parade through Berlin, and sculptures from the Mao era arrive in Frankfurt. READ »

Rich Germans voting Green on local level

Politics: 24 Sep 09
While wealthy German cities are still voting conservative on a national level, a new trend of voting for the environmentalist Green party is growing at the municipal level. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 23 Sep 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Merkel starts to actively court female voters

Politics: 23 Sep 09
She is Forbes magazine's most powerful woman in the world, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a decidedly ambivalent relationship with the role of gender in politics. READ »

Baden-Württemberg deemed to have best economic potential

Business & Money: 22 Sep 09
The southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg has been declared the region with the greatest economic potential in a new study. Hamburg and Berlin topped the list of cities with the best growth prospects. READ »

Flash mob greets Merkel at Hamburg rally

Politics: 19 Sep 09
In an election campaign described by many as Germany’s most boring ever, a flash mob provided comic relief Friday evening by greeting Chancellor Angela Merkel at a rally with exaggerated enthusiasm, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. READ »

The FDP’s Serkan Tören: ‘I didn’t want to leave the choices to others’

Politics: 18 Sep 09
As Germany's election approaches, The Local continues its series on parliamentary candidates with non-German backgrounds. Serkan Tören is a Turkish-born lawyer in Hamburg running for the Bundestag for the FDP. READ »

Scruffy Berlin looks to future in high finance

Business & Money: 17 Sep 09
Most people wouldn’t consider the scruffy German capital an innovative financial centre, but as Michael Dumiak reports, some serious business is going down not far from Berlin’s once-infamous Zoo train station. READ »

Abandoned Nazi autobahn listed as historic monument in Bavaria

Society: 17 Sep 09
"Route 46," an abandoned stretch of the Third Reich's planned national motorway has just been placed under a preservation thanks to the lobbying of a Bavarian nature protection official. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 17 - 23

Lifestyle: 17 Sep 09
This Week's Highlights: A culture festival fills Düsseldorf's old town, Dinosaur Jr. plays Frankfurt, and a Vincent Van Gogh painting arrives in Cologne. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 16 Sep 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Aachen couples have highest national divorce rate

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. READ »

German parties present miniature political utopia in Hamburg

Politics: 15 Sep 09
As Germany's election race draws to a close, Hamburg’s Miniature Wonderland has opened an exhibition which makes it possible for voters to experience the vision of a perfect society as imagined by the country's six biggest parties. READ »

Making it in Germany: An Irish rock singer

Lifestyle: 15 Sep 09
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents Rea Garvey, Irish frontman for the rock band Reamonn. Since coming to Germany 11 years ago, Garvey has recorded five albums and developed a following throughout Europe. READ »

Germany aims to build 40 offshore wind farms

Science & Technology: 14 Sep 09
German Transportation Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee on Monday announced plans to build 40 new offshore wind farms that would create 30,000 jobs. READ »

Police use water cannon against Hamburg rioters

Society: 13 Sep 09
Riots broke out in Hamburg again on Saturday night after an all-day street festival had been held peacefully in the Schanzenviertel district. READ »

Rioting in Hamburg increases tension ahead of street fest

Society: 12 Sep 09
An initially peaceful demonstration against neo-Nazis in Hamburg turned into a riot on Friday night, as police use water cannons and tear gas to regain control. One officer even fired warning shots as his car was attacked with stones. READ »

Munich stays Germany's priciest place to rent

Business & Money: 11 Sep 09
Rents in Germany are on the rise, but there continues to be wide geographic disparity in the cost of a flat, according to a new survey. Unsurprisingly, Munich remains the country's priciest place to live. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 10 - 16

Lifestyle: 10 Sep 09
This Week's Highlights: It's Gallery Weekend in Munich, Day of Open Monuments in Berlin, and time for the Autumn Fun Fair in Frankfurt. READ »

VW engines to fire German household power plants

Science & Technology: 9 Sep 09
An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements that could produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 9 Sep 09
Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 3 - 9

Lifestyle: 3 Sep 09
This Week's Highlights: A big art opening in Berlin, Belgian dancers in Hannover, and a children's film festival in Frankfurt. READ »

Hospitals 'bribing' doctors for patients

National: 2 Sep 09
Doctors and hospitals are blaming each other this week after it emerged that medical facilities have been secretly paying premiums to doctors for sending them patients. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 2 Sep 09
Find the latest movies in English playing in Germany with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Oste bridge ferry still going strong after century of service

Travel: 1 Sep 09
The Schwebefähre, or bridge ferry, over the Oste River in Lower Saxony this year celebrates a century of service. Taking a journey on Germany's oldest transporter bridge offers visitors a chance to become a party of its long history. READ »

Politicians say Twitter 'damages democracy' after exit poll leak

Politics: 31 Aug 09
German politicians were outraged on Monday after election results for three states were relayed over micro-blogging site Twitter 1.5 hours before polls closed on Sunday evening. READ »

Flights delayed and cancelled nationwide as LTU pilots strike

National: 31 Aug 09
Air Berlin, LTU and dba customers across Germany should expect delays and cancelled flights on Monday after pilots’ union Cockpit called for a 16-hour strike in an ongoing wage dispute. READ »

The real Inglourious Basterds uncovered

National: 30 Aug 09
Quentin Tarantino's new film Inglourious Basterds about a Jewish militia that killed and scalped Nazis in World War II is not as far-fetched as it might sound. READ »

Stimulus package funding goes untapped in four states

Business & Money: 27 Aug 09
Six months after the passage of Germany's stimulus package, four of the country's 16 states have yet to tap the €10 billion set aside by the federal government to stimulate growth, daily Bild reported on Thursday. READ »

Schäuble sees no increased terrorist threat

National: 27 Aug 09
Interior Ministry Wolfgang Schäuble on Thursday downplayed the threat of an imminent terrorist attack in Germany before the general election in September. READ »

What's on in Germany: August 27 - September 2

Lifestyle: 27 Aug 09
This Week's Highlights: A wine fest in Frankfurt, a fashion party in Cologne, and The Get Up Kids stop off in Munich. READ »

The Local's English-language movie listings for Germany

Lifestyle: 26 Aug 09
Find the latest movies playing in English in Germany this week with The Local's cinema guide. READ »

Accused paedophile guru Shanti faces trial from glass box

National: 26 Aug 09
A Bavarian spiritual guru known as Oliver Shanti went on trial in Munich on Wednesday for 314 charges of sexual assault against children. He was forced to sit in a glass box because he has a highly contagious staph infection. READ »