Greenhouse gases are to be stored in porous, salt-water filled rock at a site at Ketzin just outside Berlin as part of the European experimental project CO2SINK. Over the next two years, around 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) are to...

Construction work has started on the “White Cube” temporary exhibition space on the Schlossplatz in central Berlin. Designed by Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz, the €950,000 building will provide top Berlin artists with a dedicated exhibition space until 2010, when it will...

The new United States embassy in Berlin is to open officially on 4 July (US Independence Day) after years of delays. It will be inaugurated in the presence of German chancellor Angela Merkel and former US president George Bush senior. Rebuilt...

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...