Germany marks a quarter-century as a reunited nation on Saturday, with two leaders from the formerly Communist East portion heading a country that increasingly asserts itself as Europe’s political heavyweight – and now faces a new challenge in a refugee influx that will demand deep reserves of resourcefulness and patience. West and East Germany united on October 3, 1990, capping a process that started less than 11 months earlier when […]

Celebrations are being held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Concerts and exhibitions are being staged in the city and Chancellor Angela Merkel will later attend a huge open-air party at the Brandenburg Gate. White balloons marking a stretch of the wall will be released to symbolise its disappearance. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing from Communist […]

In 1913, a man named Richard Platz threw a bottle into the sea carrying a message that would later be found and presented to his granddaughter last Tuesday … 101 years later.Angela Erdmann, 62, never met her grandfather, Platz, as he died before she was born. But receiving the bottle on Tuesday was an extraordinary moment for her. The bottle was found last month by fisherman Konrad Fischer off the […]

June 11, 2013 CZECH REPUBLIC – Expectations that Central Europe’s flooding would ease this week were put on hold following heavy rainfall over the weekend, as the Vltava and Elbe rivers swelled again to near critical levels in the Czech Republic while the flood wave moving through northern Germany triggered more evacuations. Forecasters are expecting more thunderstorms in parts of southern Germany, just as recovery efforts were beginning to get under way after […]

Meet the World’s Biggest Rabbit! This rabbit’s name is Herman and he lives with his owner, Hans Wagner, in Berlin, Germany. German Giants are domestic rabbits. They do not exist in the wild and can live as long as 12 years. Herman can eat a bale of hay per week. He weighs in at 22 pounds and measures a little over 3 feet. Please follow and like us:

Topless women protesters in Germany have shouted at Russian president Vladimir Putin as he toured a trade fair in Germany. Three women bared their breasts and shouted “dictator” before being quickly bundled away by security officers. Mr Putin, who was at the event in Hannover with German Chancellor Angel Merkel, spoke about the incident at news conference: “As regards the stunt – I liked it. By and large, we knew […]