A final attempt to save the historic Templehof airport in west Berlin has failed after a referendum opposing its closure fell short of the necessary quorum. However according to mayor Klaus Wowereit, the non-binding referendum would not have influenced government plans...

Entitled “When things cast no shadow”, the 2008 edition of the Berlin Biennial steers clear of big names from the contemporary art world and focuses on less established younger artists from Europe and the United States. The exhibition is divided into...

The recently inaugurated Asta Nielsen Haus in Berlin’s Pankow district is the first gay-only old people’s home in Europe. Occupying the third floor of a modern building on Asta Neilsen Strasse, the new facility is part of a 78-bed nursing home,...

A store selling fashion-wear for men and women designed and inspired by prisoners in German jails has opened on Rosa-Luxembourg-Stra in central Berlin. Inmates from all over the country are involved in the production of items on sale at ‘Haeftling’, earning...

A recent find in an archaeological dig in central Berlin has enabled scientists to date the city’s first settlement to 1192, 45 years earlier than originally thought. The dating of a wooden rafter unearthed from an ancient cellar under Petriplatz on...

Only vehicles meeting the requirements of at least Euro Class 2 can circulate in inner city Berlin under new regulations introduced on 1 January 2008. Further, eligible drivers must display emission control stickers on their cars or face a fine of...

Berlin citizens are opposing plans to chop down 200 of the big horse-chestnuts, plane trees, poplars and weeping willows that line the banks of the Landswehrkanal in the Kreuzberg district, which the water and shipping authority claims could be a danger...

The Neukoelln district council will be paying guards to take immediate action should trouble break out in any of its 76 schools following a dramatic rise in school violence. The move comes in response to a series of schoolyard brawls and...

The police deprtment in the cash-strapped German capital has had to send out a request for new and second-hand uniforms from richer states around the country. Most parts of Germany are moving from the old khaki green police uniforms to a...

A large concrete structure is to be erected this year in Tiergarten Park as a memorial to the thousands of homosexual victims of the Nazi regime. Designed by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian Ingar Dragset, the memorial will feature a small...