Berlin authorities have reported a decrease in violence during New Year’s Eve celebrations in comparison to the previous year. The holiday saw the temporary detention of 390 people and injuries to 54 police officers. A significant police presence of 4,500 officers patrolled
Berlin police banned a pro-Palestinian rally planned for New Year’s Eve from moving forward Saturday, warning that the event could cause crimes. Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik says authorities feared that certain groups would join the event and use it as an
The Berlin Zoo has sent the first giant pandas born in Germany, Pit and Paule, to China. Despite being a popular attraction in Berlin since their birth in 2019, the return of Pit and Paule to China was part of the contractual
The Berlin Wall, a foreboding vestige of the Cold War that divided communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin, was opened and fell amid confusion, then joyous celebration on this day in history, Nov. 9, 1989. Jubilant Germans arrived over the next
Prosecutors in Berlin said Tuesday they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The AquaDom aquarium, which stood in a hotel
A synagogue in Berlin has reportedly been targeted Wednesday by individuals who threw two Molotov cocktails at it in what a German Jewish group is calling a “terrorist attack.” The incident at the Kahal Adass Jisroel community drew a strong condemnation from
A former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said Thursday. The indictment against the 79-year-old man, whose name wasn’t
The eco-warriors broke out from the crowd and began spraying the road with orange paint as 45,000 athletes prepared to take to the course. Police and race volunteers were quick to react and swiftly removed the protesters before clearing the road of
A young man trapped under a bus in Berlin survived with minor injuries after 40 people joined forces to lift the vehicle off him in what police described as a heroic rescue effort. The 18-year-old got pinned by a tire of the
German authorities warned people in Berlin’s southern suburbs on Thursday to watch out for a potentially dangerous animal, suspected to be a lioness, that was on the loose. Police in Brandenburg state, which surrounds the capital, issued a warning in the early