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Follow the Easter Egg Through Europe

2.4.2009

Would you enjoy a free holiday in Amsterdam? HostelBookers is offering just that for all avid Twitter fans out there. Log on to HostelBookers Easter Egg Competi...

New Air Berlin Flights

26.02.2009

Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline will open new European connections in summer 2009. The new flights include Cracow and Oslo. Planes will be flying t...

Back To Where It All Began...

29.01.2009

If we told you that this multicultural, energetic city of diversities was once divided into two, totally separate worlds of terror and fear, would you believe u...

Berlin Wall Christmas Trees

17.12.2008

It's been 18 years since Germany reunified. And it's been a good time not only for the society, but also for several thousands of beautiful pine trees, which ha...

The U.S. Election Fever

05.11.2008

Go on - show us one city that didn't party after yesterday's election. Berlin certainly wasn't one of them. Whether young or mature, hip or sedate, German or Am...

The New Old Berlin Wall

17.10.2008

Who would've thought, 19 years ago, that anyone would want to restore the concrete symbol of the Cold War, the barrier that divided East Berlin from its West pa...

New Beethoven Piece Discovered in Berlin

Sept.10.2008

An Australian musicologist has uncovered what he believes is the last piano work ever written by Ludwig Van Beethoven in a Berlin library. Peter McCallam, profe...

Communist Bunker Open To Public

Aug.04.2008

Completed in 1983, a three storey underground bunker, designed to house East-German communist officials in the event of a nuclear attack, has opened just north ...

Wax Hitler Decapitated

Jul.09.2008

Well it didn't take Nostradamus to predict that the wax effigy of Hitler, unleashed upon the public at the weekend courtesy of the new Berlin branch of Madame T...

Wax Hitler Causes Controversy

Jun.02.2008

With the new Berlin branch of the famous Madame Tussauds waxwork museum due to open soon in the capital, one planned exhibit was always likely to stir controver...

Holocaust Train Passes Through Berlin

Apr.17.2008

A vintage 1921 locomotive train hauling four carriages arrived in Berlin Ostbahnhof station earlier this week, its cargo not passengers but rather haunting imag...

Even Gay People Grow Old

Mar.18.2008

Yes, it's been scientifically proven that gay people grow old too, but whereas proudly painting the town pink might be encouraged in trendy young clubs and cult...

Rolling Stones Rock Berlinale

Feb.06.2007

Veteran musicians, the Rolling Stones, are touching down in the capital tomorrow to attend the premiere of Martin Scorsese's rockumentary "Shine A Light", about...

Berlin's Santas Put Through Their Paces

Nov.22.2002

Once upon a time the minimum requirements for becoming a city santa over the Christmas period was a willingness to put on a daft costume and give 'Ho ho ho' a b...

Heartbreak Hits Berlin

Oct.24.2007

Ever wondered what to do with that lip-stick smothered poem and terrible Winnie the Pooh tie, which the ex-love of your live (Cecilia was it?) gave to you? You ...

Valkyrie Scenes To Be Reshot

Oct.11.2007

Oh dear, oh dear, it seems that nothing is quite going according to plan for Tom Cruise and his latest venture onto Celluloid, Valkyrie - the story of Claus Sch...

Cruise, Controversy and Nazis in Berlin

Sept.10.2007

Swastika flags have been flying high over Berlin in recent days, and Nazi uniforms are once more marching imperialistically through the city. No wonder then tha...

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...

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