Cinema

Ben Stiller returns with A-list cast in 'Zoolander 2'

Ben Stiller is back as dim-witted male model Derek Zoolander in the sequel to the 2001 comedy hit. In ‘Zoolander 2’, Stiller is surrounded by the

04/02/2016

Cinema

Meryl Streep to lead the way at Berlin Film Festival

Meryl Streep will be jury president at the 2016 Berlin film festival. The actress received the honorary Golden Bear award by the festival in 2012 for

03/02/2016

Culture news

Auschwitz survivor Eva Fahidi captivates audiences with her life story in dance

Ninety-year-old Hungarian Auschwitz survivor Eva Fahidi has captivated audiences in Hungary and Berlin with a dance which expresses her life story

27/01/2016

Culture news

Ice sculpture show draws thousands near Berlin

Visitors have to stand chilling temperatures but it’s worth it to see this unique exhibition in Elstal near Berlin. It took sculptors from around

07/01/2016

Germany

German Chancellery cordoned off amid security fears

Police in Berlin cordoned off the German Federal Chancellery, the office of Angela Merkel, after a suspicious package was discovered.

06/01/2016

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Berlin Seals

Some 30 Germans go for their annual Christmas Day swim in a Berlin lake, calling the 6 degree Celsius water temperature “pleasantly warm.”

26/12/2015

Culture news

Berlin museum pays tribute to German master Adolph Menzel

Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie is celebrating 200 years since the birth of Adolph Menzel, considered one of the great German painters of the 19th

18/12/2015

Cinema

Establishment triumphs at the European Film Awards

The great and the good of the European film industry flocked to Berlin for the 28th European Film Awards. As well as a celebration of the continents

14/12/2015

Germany

'Youth' scoops three gongs at European Film Awards in Berlin

Comedy drama “Youth” has triumphed at the European Film Awards in Berlin. It scooped three gongs – best movie, best director and Britain’s Michael

13/12/2015

World News

Stars descend on Berlin for European Film Awards

There is glitz and glamour in Berlin, as big names in the movie industry arrive for the the European Film Awards. German director Sebastian Schipper

12/12/2015

Culture news

The Dark Years - an exhibition in Berlin of art during the years of the Second World War

“The Black Rooms” is a tense painting by Karl Hofer from 1943 and it sets the tone of a new exhibition in Berlin which traces art under the National

25/11/2015

Culture news

Gender bending Japanese makeup ad wins top EPICA prize

Founded in 1987, EPICA is the only creative ad prize awarded by journalists working for marketing and communications magazines around the world

20/11/2015

Germany

Migrant crisis piles political pressure on Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming under increasing domestic political pressure to find a lasting solution to the refugee crisis, which will

11/11/2015

Cinema

The Hunger Games: final film in hit series premieres in Berlin

Berlin hosted the world premiere of the fourth film of the Hunger Games series, ‘Mockingjay – Part Two’, attended by crew and cast including Jennifer

05/11/2015

Germany

Kerry calls for end to incitement as he meets Israel's Netanyahu

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for an end to incitement, as a wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians continues. He has been

22/10/2015

Germany

Berlin: museum digs up part of Lenin statue

11/09/2015

World

Germany wants camps in Italy, Greece, Turkey to sort through migrants seeking asylum

Germany's Interior Minister says the EU could fund a large refugee camp in Turkey that would sort through migrants and decide who can seek asylum in Europe. He warns Germany will turn away asylum seek

28/08/2015

Culture news

Dog Days at the Museum - Pooches become culture vultures

Normally Berlin's print museum is off limits to man's best friend, but this summer it opened its doors to the star attraction in the exhibition entitled 'Gone to the Dogs', an experience for human and

05/08/2015

Germany

"Arrivo Berlin" - a project in Berlin training migrants to prepare for work

A common political policy has been hammered out between UK Home Secretary Theresa May and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in a bid to end

29/07/2015

Germany

Jewish athletes gather in Berlin for Maccabi Games

14th European Maccabi Games - a major Jewish sporting event - are being staged in Germany for the first time on the site of the 1936 Berlin Olympics

27/07/2015