When bananas were imported once or twice a year, the queues stretched further than I had ever seen. My brother and I were desperate to get out. We'd hang around the checkpoints, hoping to befriend a West Berliner. Occasionally, they took pity and sent us packages. But escaping was rare and expensive. Most who managed it had paid thousands of marks.
After spending six years in New York for school and then work, I started to worry that if I didn't make a hop across the pond soon, it might never happen at all. So, when a close friend who had just moved to Berlin started encouraging me to do the same, I knew that my opportunity for life in Europe had finally arrived. There was just one hitch in my plan: Other than what I'd learned in history classes,
Berlin plans to plant hundreds of thousands of additional trees in the next 15 years to be better prepared for climate change. This comes as the result of the capital's new Climate Adaptation Act ( Klimaanpassungsgesetz), which was approved with a broad majority this week by the Berlin House of Representatives. According to a report by Taz, in doing so Berlin has become the first German state with a climate adaptation law.
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We in the west used to play dirty and during the cold war, we were good at it. Nowadays, we leave grey-zone tactics and hybrid warfare to Russia, which is winning the disinformation war. Europe's pride in playing by the rules might just be democracy's achilles heel. The Berlin airlift is a good example of what we once did well and have since forgotten.
Investigators in Berlin have been delving for more clues after the arrest of a 22-year-old Syrian man accused of planning a jihadist-inspired bomb attack. Prosecutors said electronic storage devices and other materials seized during searches at three locations in the city are now being analyzed. "The next step is the evaluation of the electronic data and remaining evidence," said prosecutor's office spokesman Michael Petzold.
World's first AI minister set to give birth' to 83 children' Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, has announced that Diella, the world's first AI minister, is pregnant with 83 children. Speaking in Berlin, Mr Rama said that Diella will soon give birth to the children. who will assist individual members of parliament. These children will have the knowledge of their mother, he said. Their roles will include participating in parliamentary sessions, maintaining records, informing MPs on how to react, and summarising discussions.
Save the date for an immersive event at HOLON, an innovative platform that blends research and play to explore the relationship between the virtual and physical worlds. Launched by the Berlin-based design company MONOMANGO, HOLON has become a hub for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and artistic expression since its opening exhibition in Winter 2022. Explore Holon: A Fusion of Art, Technology, and Experience
Ryanair has announced substantial reductions to its German winter schedule, attributing the decision to Berlin's failure to lower what it describes as some of Europe's highest location charges. The Irish budget airline's move will result in the loss of 800,000 seats and the cancellation of 24 routes across nine airports, including Berlin, Hamburg, and Memmingen. This will push the carrier's capacity below levels seen last winter.
Madam Kitty's opulent salon, located in an upscale Berlin neighbourhood, was a den of espionage wired by the Nazis to spy on prominent visitors. "Between 1939 and 1942, diplomats, foreign journalists and even high-ranking Nazi officials were spied on without their knowledge," Urs Brunner, the new owner of the painting, told AFP. A woman who bought the painting on the cheap at a Berlin junk shop in 1999 recently contacted Brunner and fellow author Julia Schrammel.
In 2019 researchers at Berlin's Computer Games Museum made an extraordinary discovery: a rudimentary Pong console, made from salvaged electronics and plastic soap-box enclosures for joysticks. The beige rectangular tupperware that contained its wires would, when connected to a TV by the aerial, bring a serviceable Pong copy to the screen. Arcade fire East German attractions at ColdWarGames. Photograph: Dora Csala/AlliiertenMuseum At the time, they thought the home-brewed device was a singular example of ingenuity behind the iron curtain.
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Each day is different at Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld - the largest inner-city open space in the world, which has become a treasured symbol of community and environmental connection in the heart of the German capital. The seemingly endless expanse was an airport until 2008, but today, it is rollerbladers, skaters and cyclists who take advantage of the fine asphalt runways within hundreds of acres of public green space.
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Police say two people have been injured following a shooting near a mosque in Sweden. Local media say at least one person has been taken to the hospital after being shot as they were leaving Friday prayers.
