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Berlin is a historic place and full of culture. Science, research and politics are big in Berlin too. So are diversity, tourism and Currywurst. In addition, Berlin is full of questions and answers some of which we will get into in this New Berlin Quiz. Can you answer most questions accurately?

Arturo Sandoval is the measure of all things having to do with the trumpet. His biography is quite a story too. 'Turi' is about to turn 70.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is in a struggle for survival. At this stage only few believe the next party leaders will be able to improve…

A day after the Berlin Senate approved the so-called 'rent cap', which is supposed to freeze rents in the German capital for five years, the reactions are mixed. One thing is certain: In a legal sense, the 'cap' is shaky.

Two years before the next elections for the Berlin Bundestag, none of the major parties has named candidates for Chancellor yet. And they have good reasons to…

The German Greens have picked a good moment to demand a speed limit on the Autobahn. Greta Thunberg's influence and Germany's attempts to reach its climate…

When a baby boy named Manfred Sepse Lubowitz was born in Johannesburg in 1940, nobody had the slightest clue he would found the first South African Rock band, be a global superstar a few years later, and that his career would last for decades.

The Berlin Wall, which fell thirty years ago in November, was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Warsaw Pact and the West during the…