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Ukraine's President Zelenskyy is in Germany for the first time since Russia invaded

7:07am May 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin on his first visit to the country since Russia invaded Ukraine.

In the German language, nouns themselves are often gendered. Cities across Germany, including Lubeck, are now trying to use gender-neutral language by placing a colon or asterisk within words.

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Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language

7:00am October 30, 2021

by Esme Nicholson

The German language is full of male and female nouns. Officials and businesses are tweaking words, including adding asterisks, to make them inclusive.

Volunteers and trainees with the group Bikeygees at a park in Berlin in July. The organization teaches refugee women in Germany how to ride bikes. Trainee Shapol Bakir-Rasoul, a refugee from Iraq, holds up a Bikeygees sign with founder Annette Krüger, ri

'A Beautiful Feeling': Refugee Women In Germany Learn The Joy Of Riding Bikes

9:02am August 22, 2021

by Deborah Amos

They come from countries where the idea of a girl on a bicycle is often taboo. Now a group called Bikeygees is teaching them to master the pedals. For the new riders, it's a lifelong dream come true.

Klaus O, whose last name cannot be revealed due to privacy laws, worked for nearly four decades at a metal fitting company in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany. He was caught on camera sprinkling poisonous heavy metals on his coworkers' food and drinks.

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German Man Who Poisoned Coworkers Sentenced To Life In Prison

7:02pm March 08, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

The 57-year-old offered no clues about what prompted him to lace coworkers' food with toxic metals. A psychologist said he "seemed to me like a scientist who was testing substances on a guinea pig."

Enemies in Love, a new book by Alexis Clark, tells the story of an unexpected romance.

Books
Arts

What Happens When Two Enemies Fall In Love?

6:00am May 27, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A love story between a black Army nurse and a German POW during World War II? You couldn't make that story up — and Alexis Clark, author of the upcoming book, Enemies in Love, didn't.

Flights from London City Airport, shown here last October, were closed Monday due to an unexploded World War II bomb.

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WWII Bomb Shuts Down Flights At London City Airport

12:26pm February 12, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The unexploded ordnance, described as a 500 kg German bomb by local authorities, has prompted the cancellation of all flights on Monday from the airport. The bomb was found in the River Thames.

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Death Toll for German Serial Killer Nurse Goes Up, Another 97 Victims Suspected

6:12pm January 22, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Niels Högel said he injected patients with a deadly drug cocktail "out of boredom" and to be lauded as a hero by his colleagues, when he revived the dying victims. Which didn't happen often.

A group of men with full glasses proudly pose with their keg of beer in San Francisco, 1895.

How The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America

6:36pm July 03, 2017

The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. And with the boom in microbrewing, she says beer's story has come full circle.

German-born Robert Prager was lynched in Collinsville, Ill., in 1918. Some Germans and German-Americans were attacked during World War I.

National

During World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture

6:51pm April 07, 2017

As the U.S. entered World War I, German culture was erased as the government promoted the unpopular war through anti-German propaganda. This backlash culminated in the lynching of a German immigrant.

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Having volunteers who are learning German answer questions about grammar and semantics of the language while inside an MRI machine might show particular patterns in brain changes, researchers say. They hope their study could offer clues to how the brain b

Learning German In The Name Of Science And Cross-Cultural Collaboration

5:21pm January 03, 2017

by Joe Palca

Ninety young Syrian refugees are teaming up with neuroscientists in Leipzig to figure out the quickest and best way to teach German as a second language. Vocabulary first, or grammar early on, too?