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German Member of Parliament (MP), Michael Hartmann, has admitted to using crystal meth. The police were notified by a drug dealer.
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Russia and Ukraine agreed Wednesday to hold talks with pro-Moscow rebels to try to reach an agreement on a new ceasefire to replace the one that expired earlier in the week, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
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Berlin is about to become the first city in the world with its own Internet domain name. The city's businesses will be able to use ".berlin" from mid-March 2014.
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Asian films were big winners at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday, led by gritty Chinese thriller "Bai Ri Yan Huo" (Black Coal, Thin Ice) about an overweight detecti...
In the Media
by Michael Roddy and Alexandra Hudson (Reuters)
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Director and producer Martin Scorsese says he hopes his documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of the New York Review of Books will point young people in the right direction for getting reliable inform...
In the Media
by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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Films ranging from a coming-of-age docudrama using the same actors over a 12-year span, a feature about radical Catholics and an unflinching look at Northern Ireland's troubles stand out...
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by Michael Roddy and Gareth Jones (Reuters)
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"Angelina Jolie presents" is the first thing on screen in the Ethiopian movie "Difret", but the true story of a 14-year-old girl's abduction, rape and trial for killing her abductor speaks for itself.
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by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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British film director Ken Loach, receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin film festival on Friday, said the more ambitious his films were in trying to push a social or political agenda, the l...
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by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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by Gareth Jones (Reuters)
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An overweight detective with a drinking problem and a fresh divorce stumbles through the snow to catch a killer armed with ice-skates, showing China has no need to envy the Nordics when it comes to crime...
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by Stephen Brown (Reuters)
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Berlin's international film festival ends this weekend with some film buyers and sellers having made significant deals and others complaining of slack sales activity with no significant driver.
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by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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After years focusing on his visual arts career, Turkey's Kutlug Ataman has returned to feature filmmaking with a touching portrait of the pressures and hypocrisy of village life in his northeastern An...
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by Alexandra Hudson (Reuters)
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A "New Age" healer whose estranged son is a falconer are the odd couple at the heart of an English-language movie by Peruvian director Claudia Llosa that marked a coming-of-age moment fo...
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by Michael Roddy and Sarah Marsh (Reuters)
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Gay characters and themes have become so common in film that it came as a shock when director Adam Csaszi said he changed his movie based on a true story about a gay footballer and his lover in rural Hun...
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by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave - who has conjured up so much horror, lust and murder as well as haunting love songs in three decades fronting "The Bad Seeds" - worries that technology could destr...
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by Stephen Brown (Reuters)
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Frustration with a lack of open discussion in Germany over its involvement in Afghanistan and over Berlin's treatment of Afghans helping its troops there spurred the making of the film "Inbetween Worlds" ...
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by Gareth Jones (Reuters)
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At 91-years-old, veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais shows no sign of letting up his experimentation, drawing on theatre, graphic illustration and cinema in his whimsical comedy "Life of Riley" that pre...
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by Sarah Marsh (Reuters)
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Seeing a filmed version of one of your novels can "feel insane", British author Nick Hornby said on Monday at the Berlin film festival where the movie based on his anti-suicide-pact book "A Long Way Down" had a special screening.
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by Reuters
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A gay 15-year-old's heartbreak and obsession with the social media make for a gripping tale of how the Internet can drive fragile minds into a dangerous world, in the Filipino film "Unfriend" shown at
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by Alexandra Hudson (Reuters)
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A Norwegian film that is part thriller, part spoof of the "Nordic Noir" genre, and a Chinese movie set in a massage clinic run by blind people and using some blind actors were the main offerings at the B
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by Michael Roddy (Reuters)
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Customs officials uncovered a scandal at Berlin's International Green Week food fair on Wednesday when they confiscated three kilos of illegal Minke whale meat from a stall at the event. Regrettably four kilos had already been sold.
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Over the recent festive period, a special restaurant, just for dogs and cats, opened in Berlin, Germany. However, controversy has raised its furry head over whether a luxury deli for animals is a necessary item.
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Months ago a scandal broke involving art works, allegedly stolen by Nazis during WWII. Recently however, an art historian has discovered more stolen art works, this time inside Germany's parliament, the Bundestag.
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Berlin council voted in favor of the first cannabis café, with the hope of impeding illegal drug dealing. However, accompanying problems remain unsolved.
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Lead singer of British pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, Jimmy Somerville, accompanies a street musician in singing one of his well-known 80's songs.
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Vets in Germany's capital are warning about an increase in the number of dogs becoming ill and unable to walk properly, after eating the feces of human drug users in Berlin's parks.
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"For her lasting artistic and peace-promoting political work," Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and widow of John Lennon, has won a prestigious German peace prize — the Theodor Wanner Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Samsung once again beats Apple to the punch, or in this case the smartwatch market. With the Apple iWatch being rumored for quite some time now, Samsung will be showing off their Galaxy GEAR at the IFA 2013.
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American painter Laurel Holloman continues her successful series of European exhibitions, after her first two solo art shows last year in Paris, France, and Venice, Italy; this time on German soil, in the heart of Berlin.
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Barbie fans could have their dreams of enjoying a visit to Berlin's soon-to-opened life size Barbie Dreamhouse dashed. Left-wing protesters who object to Barbie are planning an Occupy Barbie-Dreamhouse demonstration.
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South Afrika Vs. Mexico in Berlin with Corona beer and Die Fraktion
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This Wikipedia photo shows a scene of destruction in a Berlin street just off the Unter den Linden, 3 July 1945
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Aga Khan's collection for the first time in Berlin - Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum
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FEMEN protests against female circumcision at the Berlin Film Festival.
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The G20 Deputy’s Meeting and Financial Market Conference in Berlin on May 19-20.
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German Defence League - Berlin.
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The Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
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Sandstation 2010 in Germany
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International Tourism Bourse 2010 in Berlin
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The "non-toed fur -coaties" exhibition by Neozoon in Berlin
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Rery Maldonado, a Bolivian writer, blogger and journalist, sitting at the Ankelklause, a little and smoky kneipe - the German word for pub - over the bank of the Spree.
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Riot on May Day in Berlin
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with her Greek counterpart George Papandreou
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Tempelhof Airport in Berlin
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A futuristic building by Ludwig Erhard Bau
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Berlinale Gala 2010: Semih Kaplanoglu, Golden Bear with Bal (Honey)
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Antennas of the former National Security Agency (NSA) listening station are seen at the Teufelsberg hill, or Devil's Mountain in Berlin
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Aga Khan's collection for the first time in Berlin - Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum
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Eberhard Junkersdorf, Klaus Wowereit, Bernd Neumann, Dieter Kosslick and Christina Kim presents the outdoor screening of the original version of the cult movie “Metropolis” at the Brandenburg Tor on Feb. 12
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Berlinale Gala: Berlinale Palast
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