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Mixed verdict on COP23 climate summit

The UN talks in Berlin made progress on climate goals but critics say a sense of urgency was lacking

Germany

Dude where’s your car! Man forgets where he parked car, finds it 20 years later

This is why you should never forget where you parked your car.

Germany

Merkel's migrant crisis stalls coalition talks

Efforts to forge a coalition deal look likely to drag on into the weekend

Economy

Green finance under the spotlight at Bonn COP23 talks

The issue of business and industry investment in the fight against climate change is one of the key points of the Bonn discussions at COP23

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Turkey

German LGBT film festival banned in Turkish capital

A statement by Turkish authorities cited "public safety and terrorism risks" as the causes

Germany

German teen with down syndrome changes the term on her disability ID card

Germany

Euroviews. View: Merkel’s greatest achievement

Marcel Fratzscher says the German chancellor’s most consequential achievement is not economic

France

Karl Lagerfeld evokes Holocaust when criticising immigrants in Germany

The Chanel designer said on French television that migrants are Jews' "worst enemies"

Germany

German pharmacist: an ice-cold killer?

A German pharmacist from the city of Bottrop has gone on trial, accused of diluting the medication of 1,000 cancer patients

Germany

Germans to collect unemployment benefits at supermarket checkouts

The new system will allow those entitled to benefits to directly collect cash at tills, rather than using distributors at job centres.

Germany

Watch: Cologne's 'foolish' season begins

It's carnival time in Cologne in Germany for what locals call the "foolish" or "crazy" season

France

France commemorates Armistice day

French president Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the end of World War One.

France

France & Germany open new WWI memorial

Site commemorates start of hostilities and key objective that cost tens of thousands of lives.

Germany

A joint effort: investors help businessman set up marijuana research lab in Cold War bunker

Christoph Rossner hopes to use the bunker's unique facilities to conduct research into cannabis' medical applications.

World News

2017 set to be among 'hottest years recorded'

WMO researchers say 2017 is set to be in top three warmest years since records began.

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German protesters out to influence COP 23

The Cop 23 meets in Bonn as protesters angrilyl demand faster change to tackle the climate crisis.

Germany

Man mistakes courgette for WW2 bomb

The alert was raised after the man mistook a huge courgette as an unexploded World War Two bomb.

World

Germany's renewable revolution: Can clean energy stand alone in a coal dependent nation?

This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Bonn in Germany, and you can expect some research papers and workshops to focus on one village in…

Italy

Anti-war plea from Pope as he prays for WW2 victims

Pope Francis visited a US military cemetery and the site of a Nazi massacre in Rome

Cult

Hidden treasures of Nazi art dealer go on display

An art stash hoarded by the son of a Nazi art collector has finally gone on public display.