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As we all know, Berlin is a great place. The city can be overwhelming, loud and annoying though. Getting out of there on a regular basis is necessary. All the quietude and beauty we want is only half an hour away, in Brandenburg province.

Six years ago, the Islamist Anis Amri murdered thirteen people, in a terror attack at one of Berlin's main Christmas markets. Before and after the crime, the…

On Sunday, the first day of Hanukkah, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and Germany's Finance Minister Christian Lindner lit the first light of Berlin's huge Hanukkiah.…

The 'Big Chest Ribbon' and the 'Saxonian White' are still missing. But, in Berlin, the police just found 31 very valuable items that were stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden in 2019. A deal between the suspected thieves and the prosecution led to this success.

Since the 9 Euro Ticket expired, there has been a lot of talk about a successor. But it is still unclear when exactly the 'Germany Ticket' will be available.…

Germany is arming its Air Force. In Berlin, the Bundestag's appropriations committee OK'd the purchase of an entire fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 jets. The…

The Golden Bear is the Cadillac of motion picture awards. It is the German Oscar. At the same time, it is its opposite. Two months ahead of the next Berlinale, these are some of the winners of the past.

Since Mahsa Amini was killed in Tehran, Iranian protesters have used the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom". Brandenburg Gate was illuminated with those three words…

Listing all the orchestras the American conductor Karina Canellakis has worked with is a mission impossible. We will not even try. By the way: She is scheduled…

Soon, one of Berlin's crime hotspots will receive what it should have had for a long time: a police station. The price tag attached to it is big. So are the challenges that need to be met at Kottbusser Tor.