Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, expresses concern about the titillating yet terrifying prospect of a âsuper nannyâ state in Germany.
Media company Axel Springer is planning a tribunal on the upheaval that rocked Germany in the late sixties, including discussions with revolutionaries who were once the companyâs bitterest enemies, CEO Mathias Döpfner announced Thursday.
What do finger-chomping chimps at the zoo have to do with voter apathy in Germany? <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, has the answer.
An association of concerned German parents failed on Wednesday with an eleventh-hour attempt to stop the airing of a new reality TV show involving teenagers looking after other people's babies.
The Protestant Church in Germany rang in the Pentecost holiday weekend by successfully completing a project to summarise the entire Bible via Twitter, thus achieving a world record.
The German Press Council, a voluntary self-monitoring watchdog organisation for journalists, condemned tabloid <i>Bild</i>'s coverage of the Winnenden school shooting in a statement released on its website Friday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared on television for her first American-style âTown Hall Meetingâ on Sunday night. While she made a good impression, critics have dismissed the show as scripted and safe.
<i>SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung Magazin</i> sparked controversy this month with a critique exploring why blogs thrive elsewhere yet seem to struggle in Germany. The Local spoke with US-based blogger Felix Salmon about becoming the most hated man in German cyberspace.
A new reality television show due to be launched in June, in which teenagers will be filmed looking after babies "donated" for the programme, sparked outrage in Germany on Thursday.
At an average of six hours and 34 minutes of free time per day, Germans came only second to Belgians in an international study on leisure released this week.
Annemarie Eilfeld, who was voted out of the semi-final of Germanyâs TV popstar contest <i>Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar</i> on Saturday, has demanded a redo of the show after broadcaster RTL mistakenly swapped telephone voting numbers.
A giant image of Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing just bra and pants has been attracting intense attention on Berlinâs premier shopping drag, the âKu'damm.â
Online social networking website Facebook has taken German rival StudiVZ to court for stealing its intellectual property, daily <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported on Wednesday.
German celebrities arenât worth talking about â even in Germany â according to an online media study published this week. Madonna and other foreign celebs ranked well above the countryâs dimly shining stars for web gossip.
Germany's biggest newspaper <i>Bild</i> has partnered with social networking website Facebook to integrate user content and comments, publisher Axel Springer announced on Tuesday.
A British publisher who has reprinted Nazi-era newspapers for educational purposes has won a German court battle over their distribution, a tribunal spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Critique from bloggers has spurred social networking site Facebook to block several profiles and groups preaching neo-Nazi rhetoric â but these are a small fraction of the hundreds of offenders, critics say.
Bayern Munich coach JĂŒrgen Klinsmann is taking legal action against a German daily after it printed an image of him being crucified on the front page of its Easter edition, the paper said on Tuesday.
Just in time for Easter, German celebrity chef Sarah Wienerâs new television series confronted young viewers with the bloody reality of where their meat comes from by butchering a rabbit before their eyes, daily <i>Hamburger Morgenpost</i> reported on Monday.
Germany's high court on Thursday banned an advertising campaign by animal rights group PETA comparing animals in a slaughter house to Jews in Nazi concentration camps.
A German court ruled Wednesday that a British publisher could continue to sell reprints of Nazi-era newspapers in Germany, but only for editions up until the start of World War II.
Normal lessons resumed on Monday for pupils at a school in Germany where a teenager massacred nine students and three teachers earlier this month, the school said.
<b>Tragic incidents such as the recent school shooting in Winnenden cannot be prevented simply by banning violent video games, argues Olaf Wolters from Germanyâs BIU Association of Interactive Entertainment Software.</b>
