A German man weeding his garden with a flame thrower managed to burn his house down Friday.
Things started to go wrong for the 54 year old man when he managed to set his hedge alight. The flames ...
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A German MP from the ruling Social Democrats (SDP) has resigned from the party and joined the Pirate Party in response to new censorship laws in the country.
Jörg Tauss was one of only four members of ...
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There’s nothing like a few rounds of Doom 3 or a bit of mayhem in GTA to ease the stress of the day. Sure there’s a lot of nonsense about violent video games being ...
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The mystery behind a spate shoe thefts in a German town has been solved: a local fox had been stealing them.
Locals in the German town of Föhren had wondered for over one year why shoes kept ...
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Any regular drinker of Red Bull knows that the stuff is addictive, but apparently it's not just the caffeine that's causing addiction.
Authorities in the German states of Hesse and North-Rhine Westphalia have banned Red Bull Cola (a ...
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A worker in Germany has died after being boiled alive in an industrial soup pot.
The worker was scrubbing the inside of the 6' 6" (2m) soup pot when the lid closed, triggering an automatic process of adding ...
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A woman who jumped into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo has been mauled, with the entire thing caught on camera (see pic above.)
The unnamed 32 year old woman is believed to have entered the ...
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If real, this is a classic that will live in the hearts and minds of many for years:
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In a move that smacks of political pressure being applied by one or all of the countries whose web blacklists has been published on the Wikileaks site the homes of Theodor Reppe; the owner of ...
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A German company is now selling fried chicken strips under the brand name of "Obama fingers."
Before jumping to the wrong conclusion about a product from a company that's most famous export is its army, the connotation isn't ...
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Scientists in Germany have found that water in many commercially sold plastic bottles is contaminated with chemicals which act like female hormones in the body.
The study found that waters in PET plastic bottles had around twice as ...
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Popular German blog Basic Thinking, billed as a local version of TechCrunch has sold at auction for €46,902 ($62,300 USD).
The blog, run by Robert Basic went on the market in early January with a target price of ...
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Germany has announced that it will introduce compulsory Internet censorship starting in March.
The censorship scheme will block access to child pornography, and will follow a similar model to Norway, where the Government decrees a list of child ...
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Britney Spears won a Bambi Award in Germany this week, but before she got to carry out that golden deer, she performed for a realllly quiet crowd. Here's your chance to weigh in on her first live ...
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German Christian Churches are outraged by an innovative businessman who is selling Jesus chocolates.
The "Sweet Lord" chocolate shop (not we're not making this up) was set up by Frank Oynhausen as a way to restore some traditional ...
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Citing concerns about what is best for their passengers the German BVG Agency; who is responsible for the German subway system, has had an iPhone app shut down by Apple. The application for the iPhone; written by ...
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The above video shows a simulation of actual air traffic worldwide over a 24 hour period. I'm not sure on the origins of the video, except that it originated on this site that isn't in English, but ...
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The above shows a Maglev toy train in action in Germany. While it looks easy to use, you' need liquid nitrogen to get started, so you won't see these in toy stores any time soon. Still, very, ...
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Google is evidently no longer using the name Gmail in Germany.
Philipp Lenssen discovered the interesting change over on his Google Blogoscoped site. Apparently, Lenssen says, navigating to gmail.com in Germany now results in a splashscreen message: ...
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Deutsche Post has been caught issuing stamps bearing the image of nazi official Rudolf Hess, according to wire reports.
Deutsche Post apparently printed 20 stamps with Hess next to a bouquet of flowers as part of a custom ...
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Irena Slutsky and Sebastian Von Dobeneck tell the Bay Area's Kron 4 that Germany is a better destination for startups wanting to breaking into Europe than the United Kingdom. Slutsky claims that "London is full," which is ...
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