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Allow The Local to explain why Karneval's boozy zaniness isn't just for Catholics or people from the Rhineland. Who needs naked Samba dancers in Rio when you have drunk Germans in clown suits in Cologne, right?
The Local's Karneval guide makes sure you're in time to get sloshed.
The Local's Karneval guide delves into the traditions of Teutonic debauchery.
The Local's Karneval guide separates Germany's jesters from its fools.
You might know Alaaf and Helau, but The Local's Karneval guide will clue you in on Quetschenbüggel and S'goht degege.
Indie cinemas are a dying breed the world over... except in Berlin, home to nearly 60 small arthouse and neighbourhood venues. As Alice Harrison reports, some are even getting the red carpet treatment at this year's Berlinale.
Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube has personally intervened after a 16-year-old girl thrown off a train on one of the coldest nights of the year was compensated by the company with a bottle of wine.
This month Rhine-online, the Rhineland's leading English-language website, offers some Karneval insight, uncovers a Mapplethorpe retrospective in Düsseldorf, and dines the Michelin-way in Königswinter.
Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg called for quick reform of the NATO security alliance on Sunday, claiming "we talk too much and achieve too little."
The two youths who allegedly beat to death businessman Dominik Brunner at a Munich S-Bahn station had been drinking but it was Brunner who threw the first punch, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
German tax investigators were in France this weekend to buy the now-notorious stolen Swiss bank data on 1,500 alleged tax cheats, magazine Focus reported Saturday.
Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen has intensified his calls for a quick nuclear energy phase out, warning his conservative colleagues the issue was politically damaging, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Saturday.
The abuse scandal in Germany's Catholic Church has continued to widen with at least 94 clerics and laypeople suspected of committing sexual abuse since 1995, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
The Local is proud to present the second podcast of Portnoy's Stammtisch, our regular column about life in Germany. Can Roger Boyes beat Portnoy and Konrad at their own game?
Loud, proud and fiercely independent, Bavaria is Germany's Texas. But are laptops starting to beat out lederhosen? Lois Jones takes the former kingdom's temperature.
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