It was supposed to be so grand. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama -- who next Thursday in Berlin kicks off a foreign policy-boosting tour of Europe and the Middle East with a major speech on trans-Atlantic relations -- ran into
On a rain-soaked evening in Berlin — the 4th of July marking the occassion of the U.S. Embassy re-opening near Brandenburg Gate — the mutal appreciation machine was in high gear. Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, in his opening words, said
Sixty years ago to the month Stalin's Russia began blocking all incoming traffic to West Berlin, choking the city's supplies of fuel and food. The act was an attempt to squeeze the Allied powers out of otherwise Soviet-controlled territory, an
Your eminence, you're looking good." photo by NAVROC CommandWith a departing flight from Belfast back to Washington DC this morning George W. Bush ended his weeklong jaunt through Europe, beginning with Slovenia last Monday and ending in Ireland today. Journalists
Werner Herzog has cajones. He'll do anything he wants and he don't give a damn what you think. He's like your uncle who shows up falling down drunk at your family reunion -- and still commands respect from your older
courtesy of flickr user UmschauenAfter 70-some years of displacement, the American Embassy has returned to its historical location at Pariser Platz 2, a prime piece of real estate nestled immediately next to Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Dimplomats are as jubilant
courtesy of tehelka @ flickrProminent Berlin-based Scottish expat, culturist and opinionator Nick Currie, better known as the musician Momus, elects Barack Obama today as the next President of Europe. The position just opened up, Momus says, after French President Nicolas
Bosselmann from Driftlab and Gahlert from Neue Digitale, two creative agencies are discussing the differences of digital work in both countries at the webinale conference. It starts with a movie about the web becoming the number one destination for consumers.
Last year an Australian businessman with the bellicose-sounding name Steve Killelea launched a nation-by-nation ranking of peacefullness with the Economist Intelligence Unit called the Global Peace Index. Looking at this year's rankings, handily arranged with 2007 vs. 2008 in compare
Feldman tattoos with earlier self assessment. Photo courtesy of dailypoetics As if the US film industry hasn't gotten enough. Corey Feldman, best known from "Stand by me," started shooting in Berlin this past Wednesday for his new flick "Lucky Fritz"
Photo courtesy of medemaatjesJohann August Röbling, a German immigrant from Thuringia, a middle-of-nowhere state equipped with a new state anthem by Rainald Grebe, escaped building permit bureaucracy to find his opportunity in New York suggested to build a bridge that
The dialog between rationality and religion, Pope Benedict XVI from Bavaria says, is to be a primary focus of his tenure at the Vatican. The Roman Catholic Church, still smarting from a dispute with that fellow Galileo about 400 years
Stinginess is sexy!" Yup, that was an ad slogan from the German electronics store Saturn for quite some time. Now it's "We hate expensive" and they might get some company after Best Buy bought a 50% stake in Carphone Warehouse
Is obviously Al Gore, according to the creators of www.algore2008.de, a German web site endeavoring to draft Mr. Gore as the next US President, whom they proclaim as Man of the Century. Sure he's repeatedly denied any intentions to run,
We've been held hostage the past 26 days and were just released at 2100 hours and still feel slightly knockered and jetlagged. Upon release I also received my re-entry Visa from the good ol' Heimat Sicherheit after 10 months. No
German football fan courtesy of flickr user dario_471Since 2005, the BBC World Service has been conducting a yearly worldwide opinion poll to measure how powerful countries (34) are perceived in the eyes of the world. They added Germany to the
