The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, Germany, is the world’s largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers – and not a cloud in sight. Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there are bound to be towel-fights over them – especially as this “indoors paradise” is in Germany. The Tropical Islands Resort [...]
A tiger has mauled to death a female keeper at a zoo in the western German city of Cologne. Police say the animal wandered through a gate that had apparently not been shut properly. It reached an adjacent storage building, where it attacked and killed the 43-year-old woman. The tiger was then shot dead by [...]
A German dignitary at the Olympic Opening Ceremony appeared to greet his country’s athletes with a Nazi salute. The elderly man was caught on video repeatedly extending his right arm back and forth prompting a few awkward stares from members of the crowd. Bizarrely he was sitting in front of Boris Johnson and Camilla Parker-Bowles [...]
The 2012 International German Beard and Moustache Championships have been held in Bad Schussenried. Beards from around the world have travelled to Bad Schussenried and took part in 18 categories, including Imperial Moustaches, Dali Moustaches and Chin Beard Freestyle. A total of 163 of the world’s most interestingly decorated faces paraded through the town before [...]
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) has gone to court to get Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche banned in the country after it used an image of a Roma boy pointing a gun on its cover. Headlined The Roma are coming, Die Weltwoche’s publication amounts to racial incitement, the Central Council of German [...]
On Saturday morning a man fired three air gun shots in Erfurt, Germany, around one mile (1,6 kilometers) from the city’s main cathedral (Saint Mary), where Pope Benedict XVI was to celebrate Mass. The shooting incident has occurred on the edge of the security zone about an hour before the Pope started his celebration [...]
Pope Benedict XVI has begun his first official visit to Germany, his native country. After arriving in Berlin, Pope Benedict XVI said he had come to the country to talk about Christianity, not politics. The Pope visit to Germany may be one of his most difficult to date, with strong protests expected against his teachings. Pope [...]
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