Bayern’s Bundesliga lead extended again
FC Bayern Munchen stretched their lead at the top of the Bundesliga to nine points with a comprehensive 5-0 victory over Hannover 96. Jupp Heynckes’ side drew with 1. FC Nurnberg in their last league...
View ArticleGermans gay about sexy Shakespeare sonnets
The two-day conference in Weimar will focus on erotic and sexual allusions – chiefly directed to another man – in William Shakespeare’s sonnets, said Tobias Doring, president of the German Shakespeare...
View ArticlePolice: Sex workers too well-behaved to ban
Amberg in Bavaria has the country’s highest concentration of brothels, with 60 bordellos in a city of just 43,500 inhabitants, wrote the Suddeutsche Zeitung on Friday. And business is booming,...
View ArticleMerkel keeps UK close as EU budget talks fail
Hollande’s comments came after British Prime Minister David Cameron met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the second time in two days on Friday. A British official said the German chancellor was...
View ArticleLeverkusen and Freiburg on the up
Bayer 04 Leverkusen moved level on points with third-placed FC Schalke 04 after a strong first-half showing drove them to a 2-1 victory at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Lars Bender drilled in Simon Rolfes’...
View ArticleMilan find form, Benitez begins with draw
It felt like a weekend for fresh starts as previously troubled AC Milan followed up their midweek UEFA Champions League joy with a 1-0 win against Serie A leaders, while Rafael Benitez began his...
View ArticleLiberal fraternities lose battle with far-right
“The meeting has brought great clarity,” Michael Schmidt, spokesman for the liberal wing of the Germany’s traditional student fraternity movement told Der Spiegel magazine. “There are two different...
View ArticleDog finds giant scorpion on Munich street
The massive creature caught the dog’s eye when it scuttled across the pavement in Munich on Saturday evening. On spotting the monster arthropod, the dog owner immediately alerted the emergency...
View ArticleGermany plans to ban bestiality
Parliament’s agriculture committee will discuss the necessary changes to the country’s animal protection code this week and they could become law as soon as mid-December, the left-wing daily Die...
View ArticleParty conference leaves Pirates groggy
The fledging group enjoyed surprising success in a series of elections between September 2011 and May 2012, including capturing seats in the Berlin city-state legislature and garnering strong support...
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