Berlin

In Berlin, the U-Bahn train lines U1 and U3 are back in business. It took the public transport provider BVG a year to renovate an overhead railway that connects the German capital's Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain boroughs.

Berlin was rather quiet on Saturday. A protest staged by Corona deniers and an 'Easter March' dominated by communists were two of several exceptions, while the…

With rising temperatures, an old problem is resurfacing in Berlin. Party people in parks do not seem to care about protection against the dangerous Coronavirus…

Starting on Wednesday, new shopping rules will apply in Berlin, if the Senate does not throw them overboard again before they even kick in. The new unfitting term is "Test & Meet". Before, it was "Click & Meet". In both cases, the main purpose was to meet as few people as possible.

In Berlin, more police officers on bicycles are now monitoring the streets. They are supposed to make sure cyclists are safe in the German capital, by…

In Berlin's Neukölln district, a street will be renamed in April. For now, it is named after a colonialist who violently crushed the resistance in parts of…

In 2020, a year dominated by Corona and lockdowns, some kinds of crime increased, while others dropped down to their lowest levels in years. Berlin's Interior Senator Andreas Geisel and Police Chief Barbara Slowik just released the statistics.

On the streets of Berlin, two cyclists were killed within four days. In both cases, right-turning trucks crushed the victims. Knowledge and a technical add-on…

On Thursday morning, a cyclist died in Berlin, shortly after she was run down by a truck. Just hours after the accident, some 70 Berliners commemorated the…

Berlin has 114,968 registered dogs (effective September 2020). There are many four-legged friends the owners do not pay taxes for as well, meaning the city state is losing money here. But tracking them down is too expensive.