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Police discover Hitler's long-lost bronze horses

German police on Wednesday recovered two life-sized bronze sculptures of horses worth millions that once stood outside Adolf Hitler's chancellery but vanished in the year the Berlin Wall fell.

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Meet the Germans who want to move to Mars

A €7-billion expedition wants to put humans on Mars within the decade. Thousands have applied to go to the red planet and the would-be-spacemen who want to swap Germany for life on Mars are The Local's Germans of the Week.

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Old World War II bomb halts train travel

Rail travel around the German city of Frankfurt was disrupted on Saturday by the discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War II, German police and rail officials said.

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Heidi Klum: supermodel, supermum, media mogul

Supermodel, supermum, super media mogul: Heidi Klum celebrates her 40th birthday in Los Angeles on Saturday. This edition of German of the Week goes to the country's most glamourous export.

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Google searches for web copyright bill opponents

US internet giant Google is campaigning against a proposed German law that would force it and similar companies to pay publishers for displaying even snippets of their content.

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Sinkhole filled, but residents not allowed to return

One week after an enormous sinkhole opened up in the Thuringia community of Schmalkalden, authorities said Monday that the hole had been filled, but the area remained too unstable for residents to return.

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Most Germans don't credit politicians for recovery

Nearly two thirds of Germans believe the country's economic recovery owes more to global factors than the government's handling of the financial crisis, a new poll suggests.