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In 1999, Merkel was not Kohl's 'little girl' anymore. She even broke with him. As the CDU's secretary general, she criticized her former mentor in an opinion piece in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' daily, for refusing to name donors, when a rather big party donation scandal erupted. It did not take long until Merkel became the CDU's chairlady.

It was in 1969 when Walter Scheel made history. Obviously, it took him some effort to convince his party to change horses in 1969. He wanted the FDP to join the…

Today, there are less than 20 ice cream trucks in Berlin. The Italian expat drives one of them. This city may not be as beautiful as the island of Ischia, but…

Anton Tal reinvents Berlin by creating 'wormhole' and 'tiny planet' pictures. Those are abstract photo compositions he achieves by first shooting truckloads of photos with his DSLR camera. In a more complicated second step called tweaking, he rebuilds the city.

After the story of her death broke, Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller said Judith Kerr's books were "part of our collective memory", and this would…

As a Ferrari driver, he became Formula 1 champion twice. Then he quit, saying “I don’t want to drive in circles anymore”, but did so anyway, when he returned…

Madonna now has the honor to be bullied by Waters, since she announced her participation at the European Song Contest in Tel Aviv. The first few sentences of…

The mastermind behind Tristan is Coen Molenaar, a master pianist, composer and arranger. He recorded and toured with many fellow Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Soul…

The victim of this racist murder, King, would have been needed in the decades since he was killed. He is needed even today, in 2019.