The ten best railway stations in Europe
Travelling in Europe by train? Before you embark on exploring your chosen city, take a moment to savour its first port of call.
Day: April 19, 2012
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The ten best railway stations in Europe
Travelling in Europe by train? Before you embark on exploring your chosen city, take a moment to savour its first port of call.
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The ten best railway stations in Europe
Travelling in Europe by train? Before you embark on exploring your chosen city, take a moment to savour its first port of call.
Sweden
‘Tortured’ US Muslim seeks asylum in Sweden
A US citizen who claims he was imprisoned and tortured at the behest the American FBI is seeking political asylum in Sweden.
Germany
The ten best railway stations in Europe
Travelling in Europe by train? Before you embark on exploring your chosen city, take a moment to savour its first port of call.
Germany
EPT Berlin – Massive Prize Pool Draws Marquee Names
Some of the biggest names in poker and an armada of German players have flocked to Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz this week to play poker for big money.
Sweden
Swedes Nominated for Prestigious Poker Award
Three Swedish players have been nominated for the European Poker Tour Awards in the category of “Achievement of the Year.”
Norway
‘My aim was to kill entire government’: Breivik
Anders Behring Breivik told a court on Thursday he meant to kill the entire Norwegian government, including the prime minister, in his bomb attack in the centre of Olso last July.
Sweden
Minstrels and ministers make bad bedfellows
Art installation or not, politicians have no business taking part in minstrel shows, argues Carmen Price, an American freelance writer based in Stockholm, in reaction to the 'racist' cake controversy involving Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.
Sweden
EU commission quashes snuff ban rumours
The European Commission in Sweden has repudiated rumours in Swedish media that snuff will be banned as a result of a planned tobacco directive.
Germany
Chemical plant explosion brakes car makers
The explosion at a German chemicals plant two weeks ago which killed two workers, has thrown the global car industry into turmoil as manufacturers run short of a vital component, prompting an emergency meeting in Detroit.
Germany
Minister slams Salafism at Islam conference
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich condemned domestic violence, forced marriage and the fundamentalist Muslim branch the Salafists at the latest Islam conference on Thursday.
France
Le Pen compares Sarkozy to Nazis
French far-right champion Jean-Marie Le Pen put his party's rebranding campaign at risk, with an off-colour joke about Nicolas Sarkozy having the same initials as the National Socialist Party.
Norway
Norwegians cause splash with Titanic spoof
With more than 15 million views in less than two weeks, two Norwegian film students have scored a massive YouTube hit with their trailer for a “Super 3D” version of blockbuster movie Titanic.
France
Twitter makes mockery of French election laws
Widespread use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter is set to steamroller France's laws restricting the announcement of the results of Sunday's first-round presidential election.
Germany
German research centres face huge back-tax bill
Germany’s top scientific research centres could be slapped with a multimillion-euro tax bill after it emerged that they had wrongly claimed special tax status for years.
France
Russia ‘isolated’ due to Syria stance: Juppé
France warned on Thursday that Russia's refusal to support efforts to put pressure on Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime was plunging Moscow deeper into international isolation on the issue.
France
‘French Shakira’ calls firemen 4000 times
A girl who makes 4000 calls a month to the French emergency service has been named one of the worst timewasters for the country's rescuers.
Sweden
Swedish artist turns Carl Bildt’s tweets to cartoons
The Local catches up with a Swedish illustrator Henrik Tomenius, who has captured the interest of the world through his tongue-in-cheek illustrations of tweets by Sweden's Twitter-savvy foreign minister Carl Bildt.
France
Festival condoms cause contoversy in Condom
A festival in South West France has annoyed the local authorities by producing paraphernalia based on its host town’s namesake – a condom.
Germany
What fuels the American-German love-in?
Americans like Germans more than much ever before, a new poll found this week. But why? It can't just be gratitude for sending troops to Afghanistan. And do Germans feel the same way about US citizens? Have your say.
Sweden
‘Racist’ cake sparks new Brussels rebuke
A Brussels-based anti-racism group has condemned Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth for cutting a "racist" cake at a Stockholm art museum, demanding the government issue a formal public apology.
Sweden
Six convicted in ‘honour’ beating with metal rods
Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been convicted and sentenced to prison after the severe honour-related beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym.
Norway
Norway deports Breivik’s German ‘lover’
A German woman expressing support for Anders Behring Breivik was denied entry to his trial and has been deported, police said on Thursday, amid reports she claimed to be his lover.
Germany
German woman: I was Breivik’s lover
A German woman expressing support for Anders Behring Breivik was denied entry to his trial and has been deported, police said Thursday, amid reports she claimed to be the Norway gunman's lover.
Switzerland
Bumper bodies can only burn in Bern
Swiss crematoriums are increasingly facing the problem of what to do with overweight corpses – only Bern has the facility to deal with the obese deceased.
Germany
German sex tax men tackle prostitutes
Stuttgart tax men are facing the daunting task of measuring the floor space in all the southern German city's brothels, after a new “per square metre” tax was introduced on the oldest profession.
Sweden
‘We are Sweden’s true royal family’
With Sweden still basking in the royal glow of the birth of Princess Estelle, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson talks to a US architectural conservationist who claims that his family, and not the “immigrant” Bernadottes, should be on Swedish throne.
Switzerland
Tabasco maker: Saucy DJ must change name
DJ Tabasco has been warned by the makers of the hot sauce of the same name that he must call himself something else or risk prosecution for violation of trademark laws.
Germany
German words – great ones you just don’t find in English
For our latest Local List, we came up with Germany's best untranslatable words. It was a long list, but we whittled it down to our favourites. Any words you think we should've included?
Germany
What’s on in Germany: April 19 – 25
This Week's Highlights: Museum night in Frankfurt, Brian Blade in Munich, and burlesque in Berlin.
Sweden
Swedish girls’ desire for beauty ops spikes
Interest among Swedish women in beauty-enhancing plastic surgery operations has ballooned dramatically in the last two years, especially among those aged 15-29, according to a new survey.
Sweden
Swedish teens in shock child rape reversal
A 19-year-old woman from central Sweden who accused a 13-year-old boy of raping her has instead been convicted for sexually exploiting a minor.
Switzerland
EU irked as Swiss clamp down on immigration
European leaders expressed consternation on Wednesday as Switzerland re-introduced quotas for immigrants from eight Central and Eastern European countries.
France
Man steals yacht to ‘escape CIA sex attack’
A man was arrested after stealing an 18 meter yacht in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 10km from Nice, apparently to escape from the CIA, who he said wanted to sexually exploit him.
Norway
‘I don’t want to be a prosecuting machine’
Inga Bejer Engh has friendly blue eyes and a ready smile but behind that exterior lies a dogged prosecutor who is unfazed despite Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik's refusal to answer questions.
Norway
Breivik planned to behead ex-prime minister
The gunman behind Norway's massacres told court on Thursday he had planned an even bigger killing spree, with three car bombs, the beheading of an ex-prime minister, and more shootings on Utøya island and at targets across Oslo.
France
Hollande still favourite as election day nears
France votes in the first round of a presidential election Sunday with Socialist Francois Hollande the favourite over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, whose personal style and handling of the economy alienated many voters.
Germany
Women slam ‘their’ minister for new book
German Women's and Family Minister Kristina Schröder faced a storm of outrage as she presented her new book, "Danke, emanzipiert sind wir selber!" ("Thanks, we're emancipated ourselves!") in Berlin this week.
Switzerland
Switzerland pledges billions to IMF crisis fund
IMF director Christine Lagarde has welcomed pledges from Switzerland, Poland and other countries to provide some $34 billion in additional funding for the world lender.
Germany
Real’s boots on other feet after Bayern clash
Munich police are investigating the theft of several pairs of boots belonging to Real Madrid's stars which were stolen from Bayern Munich's stadium before their Champions League clash.
Germany
Government advisor stripped of doctorate
A high-profile professor and former advisor to the German foreign minister has been stripped of her doctorate after it was found to be largely plagiarised.
Sweden
Coca-cola joins forces with Swedish Spotify
Spotify and soda superstar Coca-Cola on Wednesday joined forces in a move that promises to put a global spotlight on the internet music darling.
Sweden
Minister apologizes over ‘racist’ cake cutting
A public apology by Sweden's minister for culture on Wednesday didn't stop calls for her to resign after she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman, sparking an onslaught of criticism.
Sweden
Student chokes principal over slow computer
A student at a school Malmö, in southern Sweden, who was angry that he couldn’t get his computer to work, went berserk on Monday, throwing furniture around and trying to strangle the principal.
Germany
Learning to teach Berlin’s Holocaust lessons
A group of British teachers were in Berlin recently to gain new ideas for teaching children about the Holocaust. Andrew Pendlebury, a British teacher who was on the trip, wrote for The Local about his experience.