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New head for Berlin National Museums.

Dr Michael Eissenhauer has taken up his post as general director of the National Museums in Berlin. Elected unanimously by the board of trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Dr Eissen...
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Eviction order threatens landmark Berlin squat.

The future looks uncertain for the iconic Tacheles artists
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World Arena opens in Berlin.

The new 17,000-seat O2 World Arena in Berlin-Friedrichshain is to open on 12 September with a concert by American heavy metal band Metallica. Constructed by the US American Anschutz Group near the Ost...
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UNESCO heritage sites in Berlin.

Six ground-breaking Berlin housing projects dating from the early 1900s have been added to UNESCO
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Underground carbon dioxide storage site near Berlin.

Greenhouse gases are to be stored in porous, salt-water filled rock at a site at Ketzin just outside Berlin as part of the European experimental project CO2SINK. Over the next two years, around 60,000...
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Temporary exhibition space for Berlin artists.

Construction work has started on the
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New US embassy to open on 4 July.

The new United States embassy in Berlin is to open officially on 4 July (US Independence Day) after years of delays. It will be inaugurated in the presence of German chancellor Angela Merkel and forme...
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Berlin’s Templehof airport to close in October.

A final attempt to save the historic Templehof airport in west Berlin has failed after a referendum opposing its closure fell short of the necessary quorum. However according to mayor Klaus Wowereit,...
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Gay and lesbian nursing home.

The recently inaugurated Asta Nielsen Haus in Berlin
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Prison-wear store Haeftling opens in Berlin.

A store selling fashion-wear for men and women designed and inspired by prisoners in German jails has opened on Rosa-Luxembourg-Strasse in central Berlin. Inmates from all over the country are involve...
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First Berlin settlement dated to 1192.

A recent find in an archaeological dig in central Berlin has enabled scientists to date the city
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Berlin’s new

Only vehicles meeting the requirements of at least Euro Class 2 can circulate in inner city Berlin under new regulations introduced on 1 January 2008. Further, eligible drivers must display emission c...
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Tourist boom in Berlin.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin has become the fastest growing tourist destination in Europe. Last year more than 17 million people visited the city, eight million up on numbers duri...
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Memorial to gay victims of Nazi regime.

A large concrete structure is to be erected this year in Tiergarten Park as a memorial to the thousands of homosexual victims of the Nazi regime. Designed by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian...
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Second-hand uniforms for Berlin police.

The police deprtment in the cash-strapped German capital has had to send out a request for new and second-hand uniforms from richer states around the country. Most parts of Germany are moving from the...
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Security guards for Berlin schools.

The Neukoelln district council will be paying guards to take immediate action should trouble break out in any of its 76 schools following a dramatic rise in school violence. The move comes in response...
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Citizens defend Berlin canal trees.

Berlin citizens are opposing plans to chop down 200 of the big horse-chestnuts, plane trees, poplars and weeping willows that line the banks of the Landswehrkanal in the Kreuzberg district, which the...
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Berlin's Giant Ferris Wheel.

Following a ground-breaking ceremony in the presence of Berlin's mayor Klaus Wowerweit, construction work has started at the Great Berlin Wheel on the western edge of Tiergarten Park. Rising 50m highe...
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Churches in Berlin: Berlin church up for sale.

The controversial Martin Luther Memorial church in Mariendorf, south Berlin, is up for sale after parishioners failed to raise the
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Hindus in Berlin: Berlin park to house Hindu temple.

The 50-hectare Hasenheide park in the Berlin suburb of Neukoelln is soon to be home to the largest Hindu temple in continental Europe. Serving the German capital
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Berlin’s House of World Cultures reopens.

The House of World Cultures (HWC) has reopened following a year-long restoration project with an exhibition dedicated to New York entitled
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Berlin Wall artwork in search of restoration funds.

Painted onto the concrete by over 100 artists from 24 countries in the heady days that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the East Side Gallery has become a popular attraction for...
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Exhibition in Berlin’s former forced-labour camp.

An exhibitionn documenting forced labour under the Nazi regime has arrived in Berlin having toured 30 cities in Poland. Commissioned by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation, the exhibition, ent...
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Berlin opens playground for adults.

Inspired by health and fitness parks in Beijing, Berlin has opened Germany
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