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Ground worker at Tegel airport (file). Photo: vince42/flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

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Workers at Tegel Airport went on Strike

Around 200 ground workers at Berlin’s Tegel airport went on strike for three and a half hours this morning. They demand a four percent pay increase.

Angela Merkel gets Beer Shower

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel got five large glasses of beer poured down her neck at a party meeting last week. The whole episode was caught on video, which of course is going viral…

Angela Merkel gets Beer Shower. Still from video
The Adenauerplatz metro station in Berlin. Photo: Esbjörn Guwallius/Berlinow

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How to: Get around

The best way to get to know Berlin is by using it’s public transportation. Learn the metro system by heart, and you’re on your way to mastering the German capital.

Give Meat a Face

Meet the pig you are about to eat – On Facebook.

The website of Meine Kleine Farm. Photo: Screen capture.

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The Berlinale Palast at Potsdamer Platz (file). Photo: Esbjörn Guwallius/Berlinow

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Golden Bear to “Caesar Must Die”

The Golden Bear for Best Film went to the Italian film “Caesar Must Die” by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.