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Love Parade A Success In Essen

Aug.27.2007

It must have been with a mixture of pride and pain that residents of Berlin read up on the weekend news this monday. The child that they had brought into the wo...

Soviet Bomb Found In Berlin

Aug.02.2007

Berlin construction worker Jens Hoehme got a scare recently whilst operating his digger. Encountering something hard and unyielding he decided to proceed with c...

Love Parade Leaves Berlin

Jul.17.2007

After failing to reach an agreement with the city council, it seems the Love Parade organisers have had no choice but to bid a teary farewell to the event's sp...

Berlin Bikes Ahead

Jul.02.2007

Two years ago, the powers that be in Berlin decreed that cyclists should make up 15% of city traffic by 2010 and, in fact, results just in show that the German ...

Knut Grows Up

Jun.04.2007

The fact that a polar bear cub is growing up might not be considered a news worthy item in most cities, but then this isn't most cities and this isn't most pola...

Tresor Returns to Berlin!

May.09.2007

Well it's been an up and down year for fans of dance music in Berlin. First there was the sad news that the Love Parade would be moving elsewhere in 2007, causi...

Berlin Goes Knuts

Mar.03.2002

Officially Berlin's cutest resident, Knut the Polar Bear is fast becoming one of her most famous too. So much so that it has been the furry toddler consistently...

Where is the Love?

Mar.06.2007

It seems that the triumphant return of the Love Parade to Berlin in 2006, after three years in the wilderness, was shortlived indeed. Despite great optimism ema...

Berlinale back for 2007

Jan.23.2007

Berlin's prestigious 'Berlinale' Film Festival returns to the capital for another year this February. As usual a wide selection of films from across the globe h...

Don't stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

Dec.04.2006

A wave of panic has swept Berlin in recent days as rumours have spread about proposed new legislation banning smoking from public places. More so than the re...

Berlin's Culture Under Threat

Oct.25.2006

Berlin's vibrant arts and culture scene may face a dismal future due to a court ruling last week denying the German capital federal support to pay off its 60 ...

Smoking Ban in Berlin?

Oct.31.2006

Smokers will feel the pinch of Berlin's incoming government's policy on smoking, after it committed to propose legislation to ban smoking in the city's bars, ca...

Polanski's Vampires in Berlin

Oct.12.2006

Berlin - Roman Polanski is bringing his cult classic musical Dance of the Vampires to Berlin, where it will premiere in the Theatre Des Westens. The German musi...

Controversial Exhibition opens in Berlin

Aug.10.2006

Organized by the conservative German League of Expellees, a controversial exhibition highlighting forced migration, displacement and genocide in Europe in the 2...

Berlin theatre cutting it fine

Aug.10.2006

Bertolt Brecht's "Three Penny Opera" is supposed to open Friday in Berlin, 50 years after the playwright's death. There's just one problem: the newly renovate...

Berlin 2009 kicks into gear

Aug.09.2006

Gothenburg, Sweden - For those who read on, no you haven?t overslept and missed the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan, or the Beijing Olympics of 2008 fo...

Gypsies groups clamour for Holocaust memorial

Aug.09.2006

BRADLEY (EJP)--- For well over a decade, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma (CCGSR), which represents the two primary Gypsy groups living in Europe to...

Budget flights under threat?

Aug.08.2006

BERLIN, August 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Berlin Wins the First Part of the BDF Exemplary Case Concerning Subsidies for Ryanair The business model of Luebeck A...

Russian Jewish immigration poses questions

Aug.08.2006

BERLIN (EJP)--- Over the last 15 years more than 200,000 Jews have immigrated to Germany from the former Soviet Union (CIS). Recent statistics compiled on ...

Berliners protest agains war

Aug.07.2006

Last Friday evening the Palestinian community and other Arab organizations in Berlin called a vigil in the centre of West Berlin attended by over 500 people to ...

Berlin Opera reaching new highs

Aug.01.2006

A Berlin opera house is encouraging its audience to get high along with the actors while watching a new opera. The Neuk?llner Opera House says smoking a jo...

Lebanon question challenges Germany

Jul.26.2006

The memory of the Holocaust is fuelling a debate in Germany over involvement in a Lebanon peace force, even before practical steps are taken to create one. ...

Germany avoids Europe budget fine

Jul.19.2006

The European Commission has suspended disciplinary proceedings against Germany for breaching EU budget rules. It said that Berlin was on course to bring its ...

Mosque Building Boom

Oct31.2006

Berlin's moderately sized Muslim community is set to benefit from a Mosque building-boom, which will create better conditions for worship and prayer for the cit...

Berlin exhibition stirs painful memories

Aug.15.2006

Even before it opened its doors, the exhibition "Forced Paths" attracted a lot of controversy in the German and Polish media. The aim of the organi...

Lebanon question challenges Germany

Jul.26.2006

The memory of the Holocaust is fuelling a debate in Germany over involvement in a Lebanon peace force, even before practical steps are taken to create one. G...

Loveparade returns to Berlin on July 15

Mar.28.2006

The Loveparade celebrates its so long expected comeback on July 15th 2006 in Berlin. After a two-year break, the return of the world?s biggest party in the fede...

Berlin Jewish culture festival

Mar.28.2006

Berlin?s Child, Youth and Family Centre (FEZ) is putting on a five-day information programme aimed at educating teachers, families and young people about Jewi...

German birth rate lowest since 1946

Mar.20.2006

New data shows Germany is bottom of the world's birth rate rankings. There were between 680,000 - 690,000 births in Germany in 2005 - among the lowest birth ...

Germany Hoping for Soccer Miracle

Mar.16.2006

Humiliating defeats, public recriminations and a match-fixing scandal have plunged German soccer into crisis less than three months before the World Cup. Ch...

Berlin launches World Cup charm offensive

Mar.15.2006

BERLIN, March 14 (Reuters) - Being the grumpiest city in Germany is not the image Berlin wants with the World Cup finals less than three months away. To shed...

Berlin Cancels Soccer Opera

Mon.13.2006

The Berlin State Opera has canceled Soccersongs, an opera commissioned to mark the finals of soccer's World Cup in Germany this summer, the company announced....

Germany threatened with match-fixing scandal

Mar.10.2006

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Prosecutors confirmed Thursday that they are investigating another match-fixing scheme by gamblers in German soccer, three months befo...

The Love Parade finally returns to Berlin

Feb.22.2006

After two years of political struggles and financial problems, The Love Parade has a new sponsor and is ready to return to Berlin in full force on July 15, 2006...

Small Bosnia film conquers cinema giants in Berlin

Feb.22.2002

BERLIN (Reuters) - A low-budget film from Bosnia swept aside veteran directors Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet as well as previous winner Michael...

Gritty German films at Berlin festival raise hopes

Feb.16.2006

BERLIN (Reuters) - Tough tales of suicide, ill-fated love, mental illness and sexual violence mark Germany's strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival co...

Berlin Takes Tough Line On Russia

Jan.10.2006

BERLIN ? German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern over the development of democracy in Russia in an interview released Saturday, taking a cooler stance...

Clooney, Farrell films to show in Berlin

Dec.21.2005

The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first seven films in the running for its Golden and Silver Bears awards in February along with two US. films that wil...

Germany to reopen 6,800-year-old mystery circle

Dec.21.2005

BERLIN - At the winter solstice this week, Germany is to open a replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple of the sun built by a lost...

No Christmas Trees For Berlin Prisoners

Dec.20.2005

Berlin, Germany (AHN) - Berlin's highest court ruled Monday that convicts cannot have Christmas trees in their cells out of concern that they may use them to sm...

Germany awards Mohammed Ali

Dec.19.2005

BERLIN Dec 17, 2005 — Muhammad Ali is being honored with a prestigious German peace prize for his work with in the civil rights movement and for the Unite...

Berlin expects tourist invasion for World Cup

Dec.19.2005

Berlin : Berlin is expecting around 300,000 hotel guests and more than one million visitors a day during the World Cup, the German capital's head of tourism sai...

Berlin Jews revisit their hometown

Dec.16.2005

The Berlin state senate is systematically inviting former Jewish residents to revisit the city they once called home. The city’s Emigrants’ Visi...

Preparing the English for the World Cup!

Dec.15.2005

The British embassy in Germany launched a new website for the 2006 World Cup last week that includes handy German phrases for England fans, such as "He was sick...

Final scramble for World Cup tickets

Dec.12.2005

The last major sales window for World Cup tickets opens on Monday, with 250,000 seats on offer and competition sure to be fierce now the draw has settled where ...

Jim Carrey clowning in Berlin

Dec.12.2005

Jim Carrey has delighted his fans in Berlin after taking time off from promoting his new film Fun with Dick and Jane. The comic actor toured the sights of t...

Thousands evacuated as experts defuse Berlin bomb

Dec.12.2005

Some 7,000 people were evacuated from homes, schools and a hospital in a city north of Berlin after a Second World War-era bomb was found in a river. The 550...

Germany 'will not support' WW2 refugee claims

Dec.08.2005

BERLIN - Germany's new government is not planning to support the claims from World War II refugees about the return of property in the Czech Republic or Poland,...

Rampling to head Berlin film jury

Dec.01.2005

Actress Charlotte Rampling will head the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. The British star of films that include Swimming Pool, L...

Nazi-era Berlin bunker transformed to luxury penthouse

Dec.01.2005

Berlin: A five-storey Nazi-era bunker in the capital is being transformed into a luxury penthouse suite, complete with and gardens. Equipped with three-foot-...

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