Germany
Women’s football misses major viewing goals
May 18, 2012
The European women’s Champions League final was decided Thursday but you wouldn’t have noticed, as only two million people bothered to watch the live televised match….
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May 18, 2012
German baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, hailed as one of the greatest lyrical vocalists of the last century, has died at the age of 86, a close associate said on Friday….
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German beach bums: naked, wet and friendly
May 18, 2012
It’s enough to make some choke on their choc ice – a new survey shows that not only are plenty of Germans happy to go naked on the beach, a worryingly high proportion may even try to strike up conversation with other holidaymakers….
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Merkel’s display of steel excites and dismays
May 18, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel left her conservative party somewhat shell-shocked with her merciless sacking of a minster held responsible for a terrible regional election result that weakened her domestically as she fights the euro crisis….
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What’s on in Germany: May 17 – 23
May 18, 2012
This Week’s Highlights: Open-air cinema in Berlin, a museum festival in Cologne, and a festival of Irish culture in Hallbergmoos….
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Three die in fireball car crash
May 18, 2012
Three people were burned to death in central Germany when their car hit a bridge, flipped over and caught fire on Thursday evening….
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Some sex abusers ‘should work in church’
May 18, 2012
Some sex abusers should continue to work for the Catholic church, a bishop said on Thursday, while a cardinal argued for some homosexual relationships to be treated like heterosexual ones….
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Ten greatest German Hollywood villains
May 18, 2012
Ah, there you are Mr Local Reader, how nice of you to… drop in. This week’s Local List turns the spotlight – sorry, the megawatt interrogation lamp – on Germany’s cold-blooded coterie of Hollywood film villains….
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Merkel ally: ‘Eurozone could handle Greek exit’
May 18, 2012
The eurozone could absorb a Greek exit from the bloc, although it would prove extremely costly, a top member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partners said on Friday….
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‘You can’t bring that axe on a plane’ politician told
May 18, 2012
A German politician not only had the embarrassment of being stopped trying to board a plane carrying an axe – he then had to admit it was for a live role-playing game, but insisted it was for a friend….
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