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Former Communist headquarters to become exclusive Berlin club.
A British investor has bought the Bauhaus-designed
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Polar bear cub doubles Berlin Zoo share prices.
The celebrity polar bear cub, Knut, currently on show for two hours a day at the Berlin Zoo, has been registered as an official brand, sending the Zoo
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Berlin hosts EU 50th anniversary celebrations.
European Union leaders are to gather for official celebrations this weekend at Berlin
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Berlin’s Templehof airport set to close in 2008.
A Berlin court ruling has confirmed the closure of the historic Templehof airport, set for 31 Oct 2008. Efforts to keep the popular downtown airport open have met with firm opposition from Berlin mayo...
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Berlin’s Knoblauchhaus museum re-opens.
The 18th-century Knoblauchhaus history museum at 23 Poststrasse in Berlin
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Berlin Hauptbahnhof repaired after storm damage.
Emergency repairs have just been completed on the Berlin Hauptbahnhof central station, which was damaged during hurricane Kyrill in January. A protective grid has been welded onto the building
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Mosque to be built in former East Berlin.
Ground has been broken for the construction of the first ever mosque in what used to be east Berlin. The domed structure on the site of an old sauerkraut factory in the suburb of Heinersdorf in the Pa...
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Berlin shops open longer hours.
Following the introduction of new federal legislation allowing the 16 states in the German Federation to set their own limits on shopping hours, shops in the German capital can now stay open 24 hours...
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Tempo celebrates 20th anniversary.
Defunct German magazine Tempo is being revived with a one-off edition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding. The edition, which will be issued on 1 Dec, is being prepared in a temporary bo...
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Smoking ban mooted for Berlin.
The Berlin city council is to propose unpopular non-smoking regulations affecting restaurants, bars, public buildings and hospitals to take effect as of Jan 2007. Currently a voluntary system operates...
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The district of Hellersdorf-Marzahn on the outskirts of eastern Berlin is to receive a facelift in the form of a giant mural dedicated to the historic architecture of European cities. The work will be...
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Construction of new US embassy finished.
The final stone has been laid on the new US embassy on Pariser Platz, the site of Americas pre-war mission in Berlin from 1939-41. The topping-out ceremony, presided over by Berlins recently re-electe...
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Gala opening for new Potsdam theatre.
Friday 29 September sees the gala opening of the Hans Otto Theatre, Potsdam's first new theatre in 211 years. Designed by architect Gottfried Bhm, the layered pagoda-style theatre at 11 Schiffbauergas...
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New Berlin airport continues to fuel debate.
Work on the new Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport has only just begun after 14 years of controversy, legal battles and political in-fighting, and complaints about the 2 billion project ar...
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Berlin to get St Christophers Inn.
Popular backpacker and independent hostels chain St Christophers Inn is to open a branch in Berlin in the recently renovated and extended Circus Hostel on Rosa Luxembourg Strasse in Berlin-Mitte. A ne...
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Proposals for ex-parliament site.
While construction workers continue to dismantle East Germanys former parliament building the Palast der Republik the debate rages over the future of the site in central Berlin. The German parliamen...
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Remains of Berlin Wall to be restored.
City council officials have approved a 40 million plan to protect and restore the remains of the wall that used to separate communist East Berlin from West Berlin. Currently 25 of the 34 remaining sec...
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Handling the heat wave in Berlin.
While six weeks of over 30 temperatures have caused many of Germanys rivers to become stagnant pools, with hundreds of dead fish found in canals and lakes in Berlin, the
local population in the Germ...
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State-owned public transport company BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe) has announced its intention of buying 250 hydrogen-powered buses for Berlin. Two of the new buses were succesfully put to the test...
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Entertainment business hit by World Cup.
Berlins theatres and cinemas have reported a dramatic downturn in business, as audiences stay home to watch the football World Cup on television. Both fringe and mainstream theatres have also been pen...
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A recent study has revealed that illegal work in the building and trades sectors accounts for around a fifth of Berlins gross domestic product, while up to half of those working on the capitals buildi...
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The long-awaited Deutsches Historisches Museum, housed in a former Prussian armoury building, the Zeughaus, on Berlins famous Unter den Linden boulevard, has been inaugurated by the German chancellor,...
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Reichstag hosts World Cup Arena.
A replica of Berlins Olympiastadion in front of the historic German parliament building is to give football fans the chance to watch the screenings of 2006 Football World Cup matches broadcast live in...
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Neo-Nazi activity continues to make headlines ahead of the football World Cup, which begins in Germany on 9 June. Now Berlin regional assembly politician Giyasettin Sayan, a German of Turkish origin,...
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The Berlin Free University and the Peking university have co-founded the first school of Confucius studies in Germany. On 27 April, the Chinese ambassador Ma Chanrong, the president of Peking Universi...
