President Obama delivered a speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday afternoon, fifty years after president John F. Kennedy's famous 'Ich bin ein B...
Standing before the Brandenburg Gate this Wednesday, Obama will no doubt again make use of Kennedy's towering rhetoric. But this time the mood is different; the promise of 2008 itself already lost to history.
A 24-year-old woman has shrunk her waist from 25 inches to 16 by wearing a corset every day for three years. Michèle Köbke’s waist is now smal...
Topless women from female rights group Femen have caused a storm at the opening of the Barbie 'Dreamhouse' in Germany, screaming slogans and brandishi...
This eclectic city must overcome a number of obstacles if it's to challenge established startup zones and communities in Israel and the US, while also fending off competition for its European crown from Berlin.
Paintings represent visions of fashion. Shapes project an abstract expression of an idea, philosophy and emotion playing with form, texture and motion. The paintings seem to incarnate pieces of cloth, covered up by - well art.
In a pre-dawn operations on Wednesday, property developers removed sections of the Berlin Wall to allow access to a building site, despite furious pro...
Imagine combining two of your favourite passions into one fun-filled evening...the Night of Custom event hosted by Harley-Davidson and Gibson in Berli...
Berlin's ABBY are Emerging Icons on the brink of something massive... and they're travelling there at break-neck speed.
If you appreciate good photography, ensure you schedule a visit to Berlin's Museum of Photography during your next visit the German capital.
Eighty years ago today, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, a political appointment that would ultimately lead to a world war and over 6...
This was the first time I'd been Berlin Fashion Week - I was nervous and excited. I'd rented an apartment for the week in Mitte, central and good tra...
Last week in Mitte, Berlin, hidden away from the detritus of the city's infamous nightlife, in a back courtyard, in a tiny cinema, mixed- media artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo presented her ambitious and ambiguous film festival, Virtual Realities.
Here's our guide to some of the best places in the world to see fireworks design teams master their craft and welcome in 2013 with a bang. Literally.
Christmas has arrived in London Town, and what a stench of vulgarity it brings with it. You can't move without being reminded of it.
Children growing up today are past masters at mobile. They're weaned early onto digital, their little minds soothed, calmed and cajoled with touchscreen time. As parents, we marvel at how quickly mere babes in arms master the swipe, double tap and pinch zoom.
The risk for the coalition in Downing Street of embracing this British isolationist sentiment is that it does not embody a rational movement, but a spasm.
A polar bear has died after catching a strain of zebra herpes at a zoo in Germany. Female polar bear, Jerka, was the first to die at the Zoological...
Felix Pharand-Deschênes' shots are created using data gathered by satellites Taken from space, these images show the staggering extent of the ...
The mysterious 'forest boy' finally identified as Robin van Helsum, a 20-year-old Dutch man from Hengelo, has admitted that he made the whole story up...
A mysterious 'forest boy' known only as Ray has been identified, nine months after turning himself into German police claiming he had spent the last f...
Police in Berlin have released the first photos of a teenage boy who claims to have lived in a forest in Germany for five years. The English-speaki...
Our weekend in Berlin was all about contemporary art but we were also treated to a tour of Soviet art and architecture in East Berlin...
I am not a fast reader. So the fact that I finished all five books in David Downing's John Russell series in just over three weeks means that a) Zoo Station (book one) hooked me on the first page b) I made more time to read fiction that at any point in the past five years of get up-research-write-parent-go to bed-repeat c) Downing is a master of plot, characterisation and pace.
The word penumbra is often rendered "half-light." The Latin origin paene umbra literally means "almost shadow." In between the shadow and the light there is a zone through which we may see what is in the penumbra, but we see it with this darkened hue, and it is problematic to say whether it is illuminated or not.
