Folsom Europe, a five-day festival of concerts and street parties, celebrates gay life, the leather scene and hard-won freedoms in Berlin. BERLIN — A hush fell over the hundreds of kinksters gathered in the pews of the Twelve Apostles Church in Berlin when the cellist, clad in head-to-toe black leather, took a …
The sweeping approach along a slick set of motorway junctions is convincing enough – although there is curiously little traffic. Then, the main terminal building comes into view – its statement entrance with huge expanses of glass and exits from a large railway station below emerging into a piazza in …
BERLIN — For all Berlin’s attractions, it is a small, wooden shack that tops the must-see lists of many tourists here. The former guard house stands behind a row of sandbags at a busy intersection in the heart of the city’s downtown, beneath a sign announcing “U.S. Army Checkpoint.” The …
The U.S. has slipped out of the top 20 countries perceived to have the least corruption, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the watchdog group Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index 2018 finds the U.S. in 22nd place, with a score of 71, right behind France and ahead of …
BERLIN — One Saturday morning in February, about 100 protesters marched loudly through Berlin’s streets to the Humboldt Forum, a new museum rising beside the River Spree. Wrapped in scaffolding, the Forum, one of Europe’s most ambitious current cultural projects, loomed above them as they gave speeches and held up …
BERLIN (Reuters) – North American crayfish that spilled en masse onto Berlin streets last summer will soon be appearing in the city’s restaurants after its government authorized fishermen to remove them from public ponds. The red swamp crayfish, or Procambarus clarkii, are on the European Union’s list of invasive alien …
A prominent community leader says Jews should exercise caution in big cities after recent attacks. The leader of Germany’s Jewish community has advised Jews to avoid wearing traditional skullcaps (kippahs) following anti-Semitic attacks. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Berlin public radio that …
Names linked with atrocities Germany committed during its occupation in Namibia will be replaced. Berlin is set to rename streets linked to atrocities Germany committed during its 1884-1919 occupation of Namibia. Local councillors agreed on new street names for the so-called African Quarter in the north-west of the German capital …
BERLIN — As rents rise in many of the world’s major cities, it’s almost unheard of to find any unused space. But in the heart of Berlin sits an empty area so massive that it’s the size of an entire country. Tempelhof Field was once the world’s largest airport, the same …
BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin residents voted on Sunday to keep open the German capital’s Tegel airport even after a new international hub is completed, a preliminary result showed, creating a headache for the city’s government, which had campaigned for its closure. Some 55 percent of voters supported the non-binding referendum …
One of Germany’s most prominent politcians has launched an oustpoken attack on the increasing use of the English language in every day life, and called for a crackdown. “Co-existence can only work in Germany if we all speak German,” Jens Spahn, seen by many as a potential successor to Angela …
BERLIN — Esther Thiane, a student in Berlin, does not know yet if she wants to marry a man or a woman — but now she can decide without worrying about the legality of whatever she chooses. Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, signed marriage equality into law on Thursday, and the …