Football violence is increasing in Germany, with reports of trouble at games now almost every week. At the same time, the Bundesliga is booming. The Local asked Jacob Sweetman of No Dice magazine to square the circle.
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Berliners guard their few remaining ‘Markthallen’ – the old market halls that have the city’s history written into them – with a pathological jealousy. They hate shopping malls, though.
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The Berlin Film Festival gives the students of Berlin’s two major film schools a chance to see where their hopes and dreams could take them. If that’s what they want.
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After Wikipedia’s blackout in protest of SOPA on January 18 and the arrest of German Megaupload king Kim Schmitz in New Zealand a few days later, the world has been debating online piracy. In Germany, an entire legal industry has grown around illegal music and film downloads, with hundreds of thousands of users targeted by enterprising lawyers every year. Ben Knight follows the money.
It seems Egypt’s military is proving that it doesn’t need a dictator to torture and brutalize its people. So is the revolution that broke out in Tahrir Square in February unravelling, or can nothing stop democracy now?
A former neo-Nazi tells The Local how he broke out of extremism, describes violence in the far-right scene and offers his view of the latest revelations about neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany.
They like Berti Vogts on the Caspian Sea. The former World and European champion has extended his contract with Azerbaijan to the next World Cup, despite a difficult tenure and an unfortunate toilet paper incident.
Michael Ballack is enjoying an Indian summer in the fall, some would say winter, of his career. But it appears he won’t bow out at Leverkusen, who look likely to let him go elsewhere for one last fat contract.
Continue reading ‘Michael Ballack, the battle-scarred galactico’ »
Scientists at Chalmers University in Sweden have proved that a vacuum is not, in fact, empty, by capturing light in it. It is an experiment confirming a theory of quantum mechanics first proposed over 40 years ago.
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Small galaxies are more fertile, apparently. New images from the Hubble Space Telescope have surprised astronomers by revealing a much faster rate of star births in far-distant dwarf galaxies than expected.
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