Police

Berliners fight to keep police dog by injured cop's side

Thousands of Berliners have signed a petition to keep a police dog together with his handler after finding out that the two were going to be separated.

Animals

Orang-utan shot after shocking zoo breakout

Zoo workers in Duisburg shot an orang-utan late on Monday evening after two of the apes escaped from their cage in the westerly city.

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'Dr. Death' opens shop selling human cross sections

Gunther von Hagens, the man behind the controversial anatomical Body Worlds exhibitions, on Friday reopened his Brandenburg plastination plant. The facility comes compete with a shop selling human and animal cross sections.

Culture

Folklorists baffled over 'love locks' in Cologne

Cologne city officials are trying to determine the origins of a new romantic phenomenon dubbed “love locks” on a bridge stretching across the Rhine River.