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The 17th of June Street in the center of Berlin has been closed off for days. Right in front of the famed Brandenburg Gate, a stage has been set up and several gigantic ...
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A lot of thought is put into how much energy we use to drive from point A to B. But what if the road itself could generate energy? Julie and Scott Brusaw, a married couple ...
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A radical change is taking place in the German job market: Today's immigrants to Germany are better trained and have a higher level of education than native Germans, according ...
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The volcano is raging. Fountains of lava, some taller than the Eiffel Tower, shoot from its mouth every few weeks, flowing in red-hot streams into the surrounding valleys. ...
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Despite being only 32, Alicia Tolliver has had no shortage of tough breaks in life -- a teen pregnancy, dropping out of school, unemployment and homelessness. Eventually, ...
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Axel Bering is the kind of person who seeks out challenges that would cause others to give up hope. For years, the former banker has been running a small history museum in ...
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It promises to be a difficult evening for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She recently confirmed that she is a Borussia Dortmund fan. She has also mentioned that she's an FC ...
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It hasn't taken long for such images to seem almost normal: In the Stockholm suburb of Husby, six cars stood in flames as some 400 people looked on when the fire department ...
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The general's address on Wednesday night must have been unforgettable. With his voice trembling, Salim Idriss, chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), painted his ...
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Cuba's capital braces for a heavy storm: A wall of dark clouds gathered ominously over Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon on Thursday. Check out the Picture This archive ...
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The laws regarding cannabis possession in Germany are nothing if not confusing. It is illegal to possess or consume marijuana. Except that carrying a small amount for personal ...
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The numbers are shocking. Between 800,000 and 1.1 million people were killed in 131 civil wars around the world last year. The Syrian rebellion alone claimed some 60,000 lives ...
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The fight over fracking in Germany has taken an unexpected turn: German breweries are now warning that the controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock layers deep ...
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For a time in 2012, it seemed that hardly a day would go by without another protest in Southern Europe with signs depicting Chancellor Angela Merkel as a Nazi. Germany, ...
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David Stoliar's neat house sits atop a hill on the edge of Bend, a small city in central Oregon. A few steps lead up to the front door. Stoliar's wife, Marda, opens, followed ...
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The exterior might need some minor repair work, but at least there's no lawn to mow. This idyllic shelter on top of a rock on the river Drina near the western Serbian town of ...
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The call came at 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. When the first police officers turned into John Wilson Street in the Woolwich neighborhood of southeast London a short time ...
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Appearances are deceiving on Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens. Three imposing bronze statues, the "Monument to National Reconciliation," shimmer in the bright spring ...
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Riots continued for the fourth straight night in Sweden Wednesday, as youth set fire to cars and threw stones at police in immigrant suburbs of Stockholm and the southern ...
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In April, Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, was optimistic. Springtime would bring a rapid recovery from the winter blues and an increase in investment, it said. ...
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With two German teams playing against one another in this Saturday's Champions League final, it seemed like things couldn't get much better for German football. But, on ...
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An initiative by the Prague public transport system intends to give new meaning to the phenomenon of speed dating: singles-only "love trains." Starting later this year, select ...
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These are no ordinary job interviews. When 53-year-old Christian Quincke meets with an applicant, instead of trying to find holes in their resumes with pointed questions, he ...
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Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria . SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned ...
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In the 1953 election campaign, German Economy Minister Ludwig Erhard knew which voters he needed to address. "Dear Hausfrau!" he wrote in his "Letter to Women Voters" ahead of ...
