A sauna club near Düsseldorf has found a special place to advertise: the wall at the school square of a Roman Catholic primary school in Cologne. From a plate of 2 by 3 meters two graceful ladies swoop the Gotenring in the Deutz district, and the message is that '100 girls' wait for a blast.
The former Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, died on Wednesday at the age of 83 during his holiday in a German spa.
Due to its favorable location in Cologne, the German game fair Gamescom can count on many Dutch enthusiasts. But whoever does not have a ticket must hurry up. Friday and Saturday are already sold out.
Extremists have made the track in various places in Germany on Sunday night. In cities like Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Leipzig, passengers were delayed by sabotage, in total, the track in thirteen places was unavailable.
For the peace march of Muslims under the motto 'Not with us' in Cologne, only a few hundred people gathered on Saturday. The organizers had counted on 10,000 participants. Hot debates were preceded by the manifestation, especially because a dome of Islamic organizations, Ditib, has denied participation in the anti-terrorist demonstration.
The three suspects arrested on Saturday at Cologne airport as potential terrorists will be released. The police, after hearing them, assume that there has not been a real danger. The three talked on board an easyJet plane, heading from Ljubljana to London, on terrorist themes. When the pilot was informed, he decided to make an unplanned stopover in Germany.
An Easyjet device has made a emergency landing on Saturday night after the pilot has a 'suspicious call'. The plane was from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on its way to London, but landed in Cologne. The 150 passengers had to leave the unit via slides.
The German hardware collector Achim Baqué paid a little over one ton for one of the first computers that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak marketed in the 1970s at an auction in Cologne. Of the Apple 1, which consisted of only 200 components and at the time cost $ 666.66, so far known worldwide, there are still eight operating copies. This date from the year 1976.
German TV comedian Jan Böhmermann has been broken out in laughs when he faced a T-shirt with his portrait and the text 'He's funny. I'll die at last. 'Was' signed 'Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey. Böhmermann did not seem to mind and immediately appealed against Pro Deutschland, the right-populist party who had launched the internet via the internet.
Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel will jointly lead the German national populist party AfD. The six hundred delegates chose Gauland and Weidel on Sunday during the party congress in Cologne.
The German police have so far been pleased with the progress of demonstrations against the AFD, which holds a party congress on Saturday and Sunday in Cologne. A police chief said that the commitment of 4000 agents is not excessive and that this is one of the reasons that the protests against the national populist AFD are fairly peaceful.
Thirteen bridesmaids got a police escort on Saturday when they went to Cologne to attend the city hall for the completion of the marriages. Many streets in the German city have been closed due to the party day of the right-populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
The first groups of participants in a demonstration against the right-populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) arrived in Cologne early on Saturday. The police revealed that it is uneasy and that there have been some incidents.
A new letter from the attack on the team of Borussia Dortmund is claimed warns of more terror on April 22 in Cologne.
Special units of the German police have arrested three suspected supporters of Salafist terrorist group. The two men and a woman accused of preparing an attack. This was reported by German news website Focus Online Friday, according to a statement from the Attorney General of the northern town of Celle.
Easter weekend makes in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is probably the most congested of the year. The suffering begins, according to the German automobile club, the ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club), all on Thursday.
The new chief of the Cologne Carnival is the 52-year-old funeral director Christoph Kuckelkorn. The social committee which organizes one of the largest carnivals in the world, it announced Tuesday.
A commission of inquiry in North Rhine-Westphalia has sharply criticized the actions of the authorities during the disturbances around the turn of the year in Cologne, almost fifteen months ago. Hundreds of women were then surrounded by groups of men, robbed and assaulted in many cases.
The Turkish Minister Fatma Betül Kaya Sayan, that Saturday night the Netherlands led out, is a private jet en route to Turkey. According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu is Kaya Sunday morning departed from the airport in Cologne, Germany.
The German Constitutional Court has ruled on Friday that the government may prohibit foreign politicians to engage in activities in the Federal Republic. The ruling is a milestone in the fierce debate over the actions of Turkish politicians in Germany in the run-up to a referendum in Turkey.
Turkey does not intend to abandon the campaign for the referendum in Turkey on German soil. In fact, the German foreign minister appears Wednesday his Turkish counterpart have been given a list of thirty planned meetings in Germany of Turkish politicians.
A blessing in disguise for detainees at a police station in Bergisch Gladbach in Cologne, Germany. The catering company which the police did business, abruptly canceled the contract, after which they had to quickly find an interim solution. MacDonald's offered solution.
Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci Sunday has not made political statements during his visit to a concert in Leverkusen. 'There were speculations about my performance. Let me put it this way: I've come to do you a favor, 'he said when welcoming speech.
One of the two canceled gigs in Germany of Turkish ministers likely to continue playing at an alternative location. Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci Sunday compatriots will speak in Frechen, a town next to Cologne.
After a bomb threat Friday morning evacuated the town hall in the German town Gaggenau. The mayor does not preclude holding the notification regarding the decision to cancel the visit of the Turkish Minister of Justice to Gaggenau.
Turkey's ambassador to Germany summoned. That happened once were stopped in two German cities performances by Turkish ministers.
A 74-year-old critically ill patient for more than one week was missing in the University Hospital of Cologne, was found Wednesday by an employee died in a technical area. He is there probably fallen and deceased.
It must have been a difficult weekend when Donald Trump called. In America, he gave up the necessary tirades during the Oscars and the rest of the world, he was the center of the spotlight during the carnival.
The government wants to stop the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Turkish president Erdogan there comes a speech in connection with the referendum on the constitution in Turkey in April. The state has asked to help the national government in Berlin to prevent the speech.
Justice in Germany managed to do Wednesday when four Turkish imams in the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate search. The clerics suspected of spying for Turkey.
